The lacemaker's cottage

Woodlock was born in County Tipperary in southern Ireland but spent much of his life working in Liverpool. He lived for a time in Leamington and recorded life in that county with the same fidelity that Helen Allingham, R.W.S. (1848-1926) and Myles Birket Foster, R.W.S. (1825-1899) applied to views of Surrey. His watercolours form a sharp contrast with their work however, as he developed a singular techinique of painting in watercolour on wet paper, with the result that his colours bled to great effect.