Following a visit to Walberswick in Suffolk , a painters paradise immortalised in paintings by Philip Wilson Steer and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Patrick was himself inspired by the work of John Doman Turner, a 1920’s artist and a member of the Camden Town School of painters, founded by Walter Sickert and Spencer Gore. He (Turner) produced the Walberswick Scroll some 123t long in watercolour depicting every house in the village.
Wymondham artist, Patrick Boswell, now in his 82nd year, is preparing for his next exhibition centred around a yearlong project completed last November. Entitled “The Wymondham Scroll” it is a 164ft long watercolour of street scenes of the Medieval and Georgian heart of the market town of Wymondham, where he has lived for the past 29 years. It depicts every house and business starting from Wymondham Heritage Museum, through Bridewell St, Market St, Town Green, Vicar St, Damgate St and Fairland St, depicted in his relaxed illustrative style.
The Scroll will be rolled out with 60ft of scroll displayed at a time, changed every few days throughout the week-long exhibition at Becket’s chapel with Wymondham Arts Centre. This almost unique project is the first to be attempted in over 100 years in East Anglia.
Some prints of parts of the scroll will be available to purchase and the entire scroll can be viewed in the chapel on video from start to finish.
Patrick is probably best known for his landscape and seascapes of the East Anglian coast of North Norfolk and his Broadland scenes where he captures sailing boats and Broadland landscapes with the details of someone who really knows their boats having been a keen sailor since an early age and who still sails through the summer months in his Yare and Bure One design based at Horsey and Hickling.
The exhibition starts on 7th May through to 12th May, daily 11-4. Also on show will be a selection of his more familiar oil paintings of local landscapes, books and prints. He is an author of four books which describe his painting journeys;
Boswells Norwich, Boswells Coast, Boswells Broadland and Boswells Holland.
His work can be seen on his website; www.patrickboswell-artist.co.uk and on Instagram @patrick.boswell
