Sybil Andrews is an internationally acclaimed artist famous for the linocuts. Born in Bury St Edmunds, Andrews first apprenticed as a welder and worked at an airplane factory during World War I, where she helped in the development of the first all-metal aeroplane for the Bristol Welding Company. During this period, she took John Hassalls’ art correspondence course which introduced her to a number of different artistic media.

After the war she returned to her birthplace, Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk. Here she met Cyril Power who would influence her work, and with whom she would share a workshop for much of her early working life. They would also later collaborate on commissions from The London Passenger Transport Board, jointly signed with the pseudonym ‘Andrew Power’.

In 1922, wishing to pursue her interests in art, Sybil Andrews enrolled at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, London. It was not until she became school secretary and attended Claude Flight's linocut classes at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art that she really found her style, and she quickly became another acolyte of Flight's enthusiasm for the colour linocut.

In 1929, the Redfern held the first exhibition of British colour linocuts of the Grosvenor School and continued to represent Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews during both of their lifetimes.

From 1932, she exhibited regularly at the Redfern Gallery and participated in touring exhibitions to China, Australia and Canada.

During the Second World War, Andrews worked in a shipyard where she met her husband, and soon after the couple emigrated to the remote logging town of Campbell River on Vancouver Island, Canada. Here she achieved a large following which lasted well into the 1950s. In the 60s she fell into obscurity, but was rediscovered in the 1970s. She died in 1992 leaving a body of work totalling almost 80 linocuts.