The society, founded in 1921 in the 1920s by artists themselves, including Eric Gill and Lucian Pissarro, is the principal rallying point for wood engraving and other relief print making. Wood engraving involves cutting the wood on the hard end of the grain rather than on the plank. The wood is then engraved using sharp implements.

The show comprises almost 120 prints, some very small, and all of a size that would work in a domestic setting. Most of the work is in black on white; subjects range from the sinister and uncomfortable to the humorous and the representational.

Leonie Bradley’s Public Property is one of the less comfortable pieces: a passive pregnant woman’s torso soberly clothed in black, with the focus on the ‘bump’ and her being explored and exploited by five unconnected groping hands. Also on show are light-hearted and humorous works such as those by Hilary Paynter and Sarah van Niekerk. Paynter’s Another Cat Show is composed of 36 pussy mug shots each in an individual frame and lined up to form a square whole. And between them they cover the gamut of feline expressions from the quizzical to the downright grumpy. In van Niekerk’s Danced by the Light of the Moon, a stylised owl and pussycat boogie on down for all they are worth!

is representational: an angular oft-repaired wooden building is home to boats in store and under reconstruction, and offset by domestic buildings beyond. The whole is set against a clear white background that speaks of the loneliness of sea and sky.

The exhibition is at Art Jericho, Oxford, Monday to Saturday, until June 27.