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Featured Artist
As a new feature in the War Artist's section, periodically we showcase
a different artist and their work in this field. The current Featured
Artist is Anthony Boswell.
Anthony Boswell
May 2008
Anthony studied graphic design at
Birmingham and then spent a short while in advertising. He has lectured
on his own drawing courses and had local exhibitions of work with
both private and corporate sales. He now works on his current projects
after both landscape, figure and abstract work. His works are often
large scale.
'I aim to explore the relationship between figure
and landscape. To me, the soldiers/officers of world war one had
a
unique relationship with the landscape by living and dying within
it. The paintings should encourage solitude, peace
and storytelling, bringing subject and viewer together.
I aim to pave the way for remembrance and feelings for the individuals
rather than a broad sweep of history. I aim not
to portray sentimentality but empathy, not sadness but a narrative
of distant or shared experiences.'
Previous Featured
Artists:
Nicola Donovan
Anna Farthing & Paul Gough
Anthony Boswell
Elizabeth Turrell
Gail Ritchie
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