| SUSAN BOSENCE
1913 -1996 |
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1939 Susan Payne became secretary to W B Curry, headmaster
of Dartington Hall School - part of the Devon estate owned
by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst. She married Wilfred "Bo"
Bosence, a teacher at the junior school in 1942. However,
it was the experience of seeing Phyllis Barron and Dorothy
Larcher’s printed fabrics in the Elmhirst’s
own home shortly after World War II, which started Sue
on her life’s work as a craftswoman. She recalled,
"these textiles were a revelation to me after the
muddled designs and imitation ‘chintzes’ of
the forties. They possessed an affinity with the house
we were to live in with its barn foundations, whitewashed
stone walls and wooden floors."
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Bosence
Gallery
Inspiration
Gallery
Susan
Bosence
Resist
Dyeing
Block
Printing
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