Susan Bosence

Susan Bosence (1913-1996) was a textile blockprinter, dyer and teacher. She began to experiment with textiles, after seeing the blockprinted textiles by the team of Barron and Larcher, which she saw at Dartington. Her printed patterns were made with lino-blocks, often using two simple but opposed geometric motifs.
In the 1960s, Bosence planned and opened a dyehouse and printing classroom for the new Adult Education Centre at Dartington. Here she ran classes, cut blocks, tested dyes and carried out her own production in collaboration with Annette Kok, previously a theatrical costumier.
During the late Sixties and Seventies, she taught part-time at Camberwell and Farnham art schools.
Exhibitions took place frequently up to the early 1990s, in Bristol, Dartington, London, Plymouth and Bath; the last - "Colour into Cloth" at the Crafts Council in London - was a group show in 1994.