Mell Boesch

Mell Boesch, an emerging Contemporary Artist, moved from Fairfield County, Connecticut to Kittery, Maine. I have created art my entire life. Color, pattern, texture and movement are important elements in my work. Movement is achieved by placing shapes near each other to replicate the trajectory that a pinball makes. This push and pull creates the movement. These forms extend past the edge, making the image appear larger than it actually is.

In 2006-2012 studied with Flo Hatcher, Master Printer at the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT. I took a non-toxic printmaking class. I fell in love with the experimental, creative process that this medium provides.

Coming from a Watercolor painting background, I use brushes (brush strokes creates texture) to apply Acrylic paint to the many consumer items and custom hand-cut stencils that I use. I sourced out a hard-wearing plastic, easily cuts with scissors. Workshop participants & I still use the stencils that were created in 2006, In 2007, I developed a formula from art & consumer liquids that extends the working time, that allows me to apply paint to 2-20 items that are then run through per single pass of the press roller. The thrill of the hunt is to find these objects and to s...

Associate in Applied Science, Magna cum Laude
Display and Exhibit Design: Gold Medal Award
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City NY

Associate in Science, cum Laude
Fine Arts
Northwestern Connecticut Community College, Winsted CT

Encaustic Essentials and Beyond, 2018
Kate Knox, Printmaker
Chases Garage Studio & Gallery, York ME

Non-Toxic Printmaking, 2006-2012
Flo Hatcher, Master Printer
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven CT

Photographic Copperplate Etching, 2010
Carborundum Printing, 2010
Anthony Kirk, Master Printer/Artistic Director
Contemporary Center for Printmaking, Norwalk CT

Graphic Design Certificate, 2001-2003
Fairfield University – University College CT

2015 Beach Pea Baking Co., Kittery, Maine

2015 St. John's Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, New Hampshire I Artist-in-Residence I Monotypes Retrospective

2014 Monotype Guild of New England; Unique Impressions IV: MGNE Annual Members Exhibit Falmouth Art Center, Cape Cod, MA

2013 Kittery Art Association, Seacoast Moderns, "Mettle" Group Show, Kittery, ME

2013 York Library, Seacoast Moderns, "Mettle" Group Show, York, ME

2013 Kittery Art Association, "For the Birds" an All-Member Group Show, Kittery, ME

2013 Kittery Art Association "Reflections" an All-Member Group Show, Kittery, ME

2013 York Art Association, 2nd Place Winner: “Submersed in the Sea" York, ME, 50th Anniversary Tribute to Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring

2012 Rowayton Arts Center "Expressions 2012" Juried All-Media Exhibition, Rowayton, CT Juror: Robin Garr, Director of Education at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT

2011 City Wide Open Studios Weekend - Solo Exhibition, Erector Square, New Haven, CT, Works on Paper

2011 ArtSpace Gallery, City Wide Open Studios Group Exhibition I October 14 - October 30th, New Haven, CT

2011 Selected as one of 52 Connecticut artists to participate in Somewhat Off the Wall at the Odonnell Company...