Laura BOSWELL

Laura Boswell is fully dedicated to being printmaker, working only with linocut and traditional Japanese woodblock printing. She obtained a degree in art history and visual arts in Wales and trained extensively in Japan, where she studied ancestral printmaking techniques with master craftsmen. Her esthetic is infused with influences and skills acquired from this rich printmaking tradition, but it is not restricted by it. While Boswell’s use of line, her use of the white of the paper, and her choice of colors are all partially influenced by traditional Japanese woodcuts, she makes each composition her own. For one, Boswell often composes her images using painted strokes directly applied to her matrix. Carving these fluid lines meticulously she somehow obtains effects which are surprisingly loose. Combined with her use of light color, printed in layers wiped and mixed directly on the block, her images gain a sense of spontaneity which belies their careful construction. Her prints, which depict nature in bright and at times vibrant colors, sometimes focus on details, while at other times they depict sweeping vistas. Her prints’ editions are nearly always very small, circa 10 each.

$325

Bird Dance Cliffs

BOSWELL, Laura

Combined color watercolor woodcut reduction and linocut reduction, printed on wove paper.Edition of 11. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil.

$500

Kokedera Moss Temple, Kyoto

BOSWELL, Laura

Japanese-style water-based woodblock print (mokuhanga), printed on two sheets.Edition of 14.Signed and numbered in pencil.Image sizes: 9 3/4 x 7 7/...

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$575

Chiltern Seasons Summer

BOSWELL, Laura

Japanese watercolor woodblock, printed on wove paper.Edition of 25.Signed, dated and numbered in pencil.

$400

Early Morning, Hillside

BOSWELL, Laura

Linocut and woodblock, printed on Hosho paper.Edition of 19.

$375

Barley Crop, Warm Afternoon

BOSWELL, Laura

Linocut. Edition of 12.

$400

Vale Teasles

BOSWELL, Laura

Combined Japanese woodblock and linocut reduction.Edition of 17.Signed in pencil.

$475

Limestone Pavement

BOSWELL, Laura

Linocut.Edition of 14.Inspired by the extraordinary rock formations near Malham in Northern Yorkshire, England.

$350

Patchwork Fields, Bilsdale

BOSWELL, Laura

Japanese water-based woodblock.Edition of 20.Japan meets Yorkshire in this woodblock print of the North Yorkshire Moors, one of a series exploring ...

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