George Edward Mackley MBE (born 1900 in Huntingdon, died 1983 in Tonbridge, Kent) was an English wood engraving artist.

Educated at the Judd School in Tunbridge, Kent, Mackley trained as a teacher of art at Goldsmiths' College, London, specializing in painting and etching. In 1935, he learned basic wood engraving technique from Noel Rooke.^[1]

Mackley's book Wood Engraving, published in 1948, remains one of the leading manuals of engraving techniques.^[2] In A History of British Wood Engraving (1978) Albert Garrett described him as ‘a phenomenon in British engraving. A few square centimetres of Mackley is more charged with aesthetic energy, emotion and precision than many artists can muster in a lifetime [...] He could not tolerate bad or weak craftsmanship under any circumstances; bad draughtsmanship met with short shrift from him. He makes no claims to being a creative artist and always stresses that he is primarily a craftsman.'^[3]

He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1983 New Year Honours.^[4]

• George Mackley's Picture Book, George Mackley, 1981, J.L. Carr, Publisher, Kettering England.
• Wood Engraving, George Mackley, Gresham Books. ISBN 978-0-905418-84-1
• Confessions of a Woodpecker, George Mackley & H. Ecclestone, 1981, ISBN 978-0-905418-92-6
• George Mackley, Wood Engravings, 1995, Blond Fine Art. ASIN B001NFK4AU
• Monica Poole: Wood engraver, George Mackley & Graham L. Williams, 1984, Florin. ISBN 978-0-90671-510-9
• Wood Engravings with illustrations, George Mackley. ASIN B0014LW1T2