Rosemary Boaler
I first came to Quorn in I952 from Derby, where I had been working as a bank clerk. After looking for a job for about three months and trying to get used to the quiet of Quorn, I went to work in Loughborough for H. M. Inspector of taxes. Three years of pushing bits of paper around nearly deprived me of my sanity so I took the step of going to Loughborough College of Art as a mature student. I took the City and Guilds Dress course and the National Diploma in Design course simultaneously, and then, when I had qualified, I started my teaching career at De Lisle School.
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I left there in I962, had another fifteen months of miserable unemployment (and enforced maternity leave, having married a year or two earlier), took a job in a supermarket in sheer desperation and then was lucky enough to get back into teaching. The next few months were spent teaching art at Pierpoint School in Nottingham, before I gratefully accepted the post of assistant art teacher at Loreto Grammar School, also in Nottingham. I loved the work, the staff, and the pupils and stayed there until I975, when the School became comprehensive, amalgamated with Bishop Dunn. A year of supply teaching followed (part of it teaching Home Economics).
In I976 my husband and I went to work in Lusaka in Zambia. Again, I was extremely happy teaching art in the International School. School in Africa begins at 7.30am and ends around lunch-time so now I had afternoons free to do the craft work which I had been doing over the years in my spare time. I made fabric collages, produced small paintings of local scenes and supplied a local shop with necklaces and greeting cards.
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We had just begun our fourth year when my husband became ill and we had to return to England. We reclaimed our house in Quorn and, as he was no longer strong enough to return to teaching, we opened a small craft shop and cafe in the High Street, known as "Homecraft". We took up patchwork, he tacking and I assembling, and I went back to the College to learn a little more about embroidery and patchwork. Since then I have spent more time doing those than anything else, but I also still make greeting cards, necklaces, paint when commissioned, and manage occasionally to paint for exhibition and my own pleasure.
If you have an interest in any of my work, please feel free to contact me on (01509) 414966
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