Alice Margaret Coats

Alice Margaret Coats (15 June 1905 – 19 May 1978, in Bath) was a British watercolour painter, engraver, woodcut artist, and author. She was a member of the Central Club of Wood-Engravers in Colour. She is best known for botanical and horticultural works.

Life Alice Margaret Coats was born on 15 June 1905 in Handsworth, Birmingham, to a Scottish clergyman, the Rev. Robert Hay Coats, and his wife Margaret, who was from Glasgow. Coats was educated at Edgbaston High School before studying at the Birmingham Central School of Art between 1922 and 1928, at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and in Paris during the 1930s at Andre Lhote's school. Among her other works were Garden Shrubs and their Histories (1963), The Quest for Plants: a History of the Horticultural Explorers (1969), The Treasury of Flowers (1975), and Lord Bute (1975). Government Art Collection, London Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery British Council, London The Quest for Plants: a History of the Horticultural Explorers (1969) The Books of Flowers (1973) Lord Bute (1975)