Simon Brett (1943–2024) was an artist, printmaker and prize-winning book illustrator. He taught for 18 years, from 1970 to 1989, and wrote extensively on the history and practice of wood engraving, editing the Engravers handbooks for the Society of Wood Engravers and the Contemporary Wood Engravers series for Primrose Hill Press, as well as curating major exhibitions for the Society and for the British Council. He was Chair of the Society of Wood Engravers from 1986 to 1992.