John Tandy, painter and stage designer, studied at the Architectural Association before becoming a student at Leon Underwood’s Brook Green school and later studying at the Grosvenor and in Paris. He started exhibiting his mainly abstract wood-engravings from 1928 and had his first One-Man exhibition at the Cotters Studio Gallery. Ref: Clare Leighton: Wood-Engravings of the 1930’s. Studio 1936. James Hamilton: Wood Engraving & The Woodcut in Britain c.1890-1990. Pub. Barrie & Jenkins 1994.