Laura Boswell

Laura Boswell

My primary interest in creating is to work with shape and colour. I constantly strive to push linocut or Japanese watercolour woodblock processes in new directions, always manipulating the techniques to suit the images I intend to create rather than fitting my ideas into the demands of the print process. I am not particularly interested in producing an accurate reproduction of a specific site. I prefer to try and evoke a sense of place that is less about geography and more about mood. There’s a lot of new work in the exhibition 'Between the Lines': having direct access to such a magnificent coastal landscape after moving to Scoltand is almost overwhelming. I’m obsessed with catching the luminosity of the local light - Kirkcudbright is an ‘Artist’s Town’ for good reason!’

Laura has a degree in Art History/Visual Art from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and is a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. She undertook three residencies to train in Japan, studying woodblock printmaking with master craftsmen, and her work often looks to Japan in its use of white space and minimal approach. In addition to her printmaking, Laura teaches, writes a column for Artists and Illustrators Magazine and works on the occasional public art project. This year she has taken the plunge and moved from the English home counties to Kirkcudbright (Scotland) in pursuit of her source material.