LAURA BOSWELL

I work with and teach lino cut and Japanese water based woodcut. My personal work focuses on the rural landscape. I'm not interested in an accurate depiction of a particular place; more I want to evoke a feel for the familiar, perhaps a type of day or season. Mostly I am looking for ways of saying space and distance, though I'm still working on language for the simpler things too. Printmaking is a demanding process and I love the tension between what I want to say and how I can say it within the boundaries of process. I am not a rigid planner, adapting my work as it evolves. It's more a question of having a feel for what I want to achieve rather than planning in advance how I will achieve it.

Recent Commissions and Residencies

2011 Leysdown Rose, Tinted Artist designer for contemporary artwork for Leysdown Village, Isle of Sheppy
2010 Hand and Eye Press, Collaborative print project, artist in residence
2010 Penn School, Bucks, Print artist in residence with special needs pupils
2010 Missenden Abbey, Artist in Residence
2009 Nagasawa Art Park, Japan British Artist 8 week print residency
2009 AJ Wells Vitreous Enamellers, Resident artist Great Western Street Project