Althea Willoughby

She worked as a book and magazine illustrator, painted decorative tiles and made wood engravings.

[2] Willoughby was educated at the Royal College of Art during the 1920s.

[1] Willoughby designed the woodcut frontispiece for Alexander Somerton's The Glades of Glenbella (1929)[3] and illustrated three volumes of Faber and Faber's Ariel Poems: James Stephens' The Outcast (1929), D. H. Lawrence's The Triumph of the Machine (1930), and Henry Newbolt's A Child is Born (1931) She designed posters for London Transport,[1] including Chrysanthemums in London's Parks (1933),[4][5] and for the Southern Railway.

[6] She also designed patterned papers for the Curwen Press.

[9] Her work is in collections including the Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers at the British Library,[10] and that of the Victoria and Albert Museum.