Jane Boswell
Jane has been painting and drawing all her life. She graduated from Loughborough with a Degree in Fine Art in 1983. With a Post Graduate Teaching Certificate from Goldsmiths, Jane has spent the best part of her career as a teacher of Art. Her first love with paint has been landscape and she has a real fondness for the sea and mountains of Wales. Having recently gone part time with her teaching she has found a second love, cake! This has led her to paint scrumptious images of yummy cakes.
Working mainly on small square panels, Jane has really enjoyed the change of scale using oil on wood as a new medium to portray these delightful treats. Her paintings are small and intimate. ‘I impregnate the wood with linseed oil and often leave parts of the natural wood showing. My themes include teatime treats, coffee breaks with cake. I also love the small and delicate aspects of the natural world, little pebbles, feathers, wild flowers, orchids and eggshells, finding the detail challenging and inspiring. This led to the name of my website: Cherryloftstudio.co.uk as I have a lovely cherry blossom tree in my garden.’
Jane has recently expanded her range of products with her porcelain ring and jewellery dishes. She has enjoyed the challenges of working with semi-porcelain, producing both blue and white and pink and white products. Adding gold leaf gilding to the inside and edges of her dishes has made these little gems feel very precious.
‘Inspired by the natural shapes found in nature, my porcelain ceramics are small and delicate ring dishes. I shape and hand- pinch the clay to create crimped edges reflecting those of a flower petal or shell. I enjoy working with oxides to add the splashes of blue, so effective on white. Under glaze is added for the pink petal dishes and gold leaf gilded onto my work post firing.’ Her latest venture is with stoneware, again hand building little pinch pots for Sake or espresso coffee. ‘I have also added little jugs with a bird like beak as the pouring spout.’ These sets have a textured outside and a high gloss black glaze inside adding a real contrast of surfaces.
Jane Boswell is the owner/maker of Cherry Loft Studio.
On Etsy and Facebook
On the web: Cherryloftstudio.co.uk
Jane has been painting and drawing all her life. She graduated from Loughborough with a Degree in Fine Art in 1983. With a Post Graduate Teaching Certificate from Goldsmiths, Jane has spent the best part of her career as a teacher of Art. Her first love with paint has been landscape and she has a real fondness for the sea and mountains of Wales. Having recently gone part time with her teaching she has found a second love, cake! This has led her to paint scrumptious images of yummy cakes.
Working mainly on small square panels, Jane has really enjoyed the change of scale using oil on wood as a new medium to portray these delightful treats. Her paintings are small and intimate. ‘I impregnate the wood with linseed oil and often leave parts of the natural wood showing. My themes include teatime treats, coffee breaks with cake. I also love the small and delicate aspects of the natural world, little pebbles, feathers, wild flowers, orchids and eggshells, finding the detail challenging and inspiring. This led to the name of my website: Cherryloftstudio.co.uk as I have a lovely cherry blossom tree in my garden.’
Jane has recently expanded her range of products with her porcelain ring and jewellery dishes. She has enjoyed the challenges of working with semi-porcelain, producing both blue and white and pink and white products. Adding gold leaf gilding to the inside and edges of her dishes has made these little gems feel very precious.
‘Inspired by the natural shapes found in nature, my porcelain ceramics are small and delicate ring dishes. I shape and hand- pinch the clay to create crimped edges reflecting those of a flower petal or shell. I enjoy working with oxides to add the splashes of blue, so effective on white. Under glaze is added for the pink petal dishes and gold leaf gilded onto my work post firing.’ Her latest venture is with stoneware, again hand building little pinch pots for Sake or espresso coffee. ‘I have also added little jugs with a bird like beak as the pouring spout.’ These sets have a textured outside and a high gloss black glaze inside adding a real contrast of surfaces.
Jane Boswell is the owner/maker of Cherry Loft Studio.
On Etsy and Facebook
On the web: Cherryloftstudio.co.uk
