When Sal and Brian's daughter-in-law Laura left Collections in 2000 for life in the country we all thought she'd be happy making jam and digging her garden. She was up until three years ago when she decided to go back to lino cut printmaking. We thought she'd be happy with that too, but she had bigger ambitions. Now Laura is working to create the largest original enamel artwork in Europe for Aylesbury town centre. She's working with vitreous enamellers AJ Wells and Sons (enamellers to London Transport) on the Isle of Wight, painting enamel pigment directly onto large panels to create two huge locally inspired landscapes, each one 4.8m high by around 150m long. You can have a look at her work, her techniques and her very amusing blog on her website at www.lauraboswell.co.uk. We're astonished at her success in landing the project and her stamina at carrying out the work, she tells us she is as well.
It's lovely to be back in Collections if only as a visiting artist. Please have a look at my web site and check out my public art project in vitreous enamel (I have to go there and check it out to quite believe my luck sometimes). Working on such a vast scale and over a long period to produce close on two hundred enamel panels is quite a tough, grimy and demanding adventure. I finish six panels each day, working on all six at once to keep a flow of work drawn, painted, dried, fired, returned, over painted, dried and so on in a kind of manic dance. I have no space to explain here, but there are photos, a blog and plenty of explanations on my web site. Photos by my other half Ben Boswell, a collections contributor.
If anybody is interested in following up this story we would be delighted to put you in touch. Laura is maintaining a very entertaining blog about her progress at laura-boswell.blogspot.com.
