Mabel Royds (1874–1941) won a scholarship to the Royal Academy at fifteen but chose instead to study at the Slade School of Fine Art. After training, she moved to Paris to work with Walter Sickert before travelling to Canada, where she taught in Toronto. Returning to Britain in 1911, she joined Edinburgh College of Art alongside S.J. Peploe. Royds became renowned for her vividly coloured woodcuts of flowers, Biblical subjects, and Indian scenes, influenced by Japanese printmaking techniques.