Skye to the Mainland by Laura Boswell

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It is rare for the artist to depict a specific location, but this reduction linocut print is based on a single sketch done on location with the small house as a direct contrast to the vast landscape surrounding it. The foreground grasses are pushed to the point of abstract pattern, leading the viewer through the landscape.

A hand-produced reduction linocut print in an edition of 11. Each print is hand numbered and signed by the artist.

Image size approximately: 73cm (h) x 46cm (w).  Supplied unframed (can be framed if required please contact the gallery for prices).

This piece can also be purchased using Own Art - payment by 10 interest free instalments of £47.50 per month - contact the gallery for full details.

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About Laura Boswell

Laura Boswell is a local artist specialising in relief printmaking. Her work focuses on the rural landscape with particular attention to season, pattern and light. Awarded an eight week residency at the Nagasawa Art Institute in Japan, she was one of six international artists to study traditional Japanese water based woodblock printmaking. The unique residency gave her the opportunity to learn from a master woodcarver and a master printer as well as working with Japanese artists, craftsmen and papermakers. The residency has had a profound effect on her work and she is now experimenting with combinations of water and oil based work.

Artist Statement

I am primarily interested by shape and colour. My personal work focuses on rural landscape as I am fascinated by its pattern, light, weather and seasonality. It’s the perfect raw material for me: local, familiar and in a constant state of change.

Printmaking and enamelling are demanding processes and I thrive on the tension between what I want to say and how I can say it within the boundaries of process. I’m at my happiest when I’m exploring and I try never to get too comfortable either with my images or my technical skills. Teaching and sharing skills are an important part of my work and development; I reap huge benefits from working with all levels of learners as well as collaborating with experts.

I’m not so much interested in an accurate depiction of a particular place, more I want to evoke a feel for the familiar and loved, 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. I want to jog memories in my viewer of places they’ve been, walks they’ve taken or weather they’ve experienced. When I see recognition dawn, I know I’m getting it right.