Local artist Laura Boswell has been commissioned to create the largest hand painted enamel artwork of its kind in Europe for Buckinghamshire County Council and Aylesbury Vale District Council. This piece of public art is part of Aylesbury’s redevelopment of the town’s transport hub and installation has now begun in Great Western Street which houses the town’s bus station.
In partnership with vitreous enamellers AJ Wells and Sons, Laura has designed and planned the painting of two landscapes which capture the essence of the rural landscape of Aylesbury Vale. Working entirely by hand on site in the factory, she has painted the scenes onto a series of large enamel panels. The panels have been fired to form a permanent and vandal resistant vitreous enamel surface which will line the walls of Great Western Street, the large covered road that runs between Aylesbury’s market square and its railway station.
Thanks to the methods developed by Laura and AJ Wells, Aylesbury has a unique and original piece of art. The artist comments that ‘the whole experience of working with business, from the town planners and architects through to the factory managers and the men on the shop floor, has been a unique opportunity for me to develop as an artist and for my career to move forward in a totally new direction.’
