Born in Argentina, Paula Bosco is a visual artist and designer working mostly with textiles. Paula specialized in Textile Design at Central Saint Martins School, University of the Arts London. She currently lives and works in London. Questioning the art industry's impact on the environment, she embraces a visual and meditative process that moves away from exploitative and extractive relationships with nature and prioritizes connection, slower living, and mindful action.

Bosco works solely with organic materials and adopts ancient artisanal application methods, including hand printing, painting, dyeing, sewing, embroidery, and hand weaving. Her continuous and endless experimentation of botanical dyes and mineral pigments results in a color palette that is quite subdued yet reveals the unspoken energy and power held in the medium.

Her works carry an intimate and honest relationship between the pigments and the raw textiles. Closely, each piece and surface is subtly raw in its textures, and its receded colors do not cause distraction from the material, its meaning, and its substance. The minimalism and rhythms of the compositions attempt to capture the sublime simplicity of everyday life and the poetic cycles of nature.

"My art is an offering with the intention of bringing a quiet time for observation, reflection, deep communion with nature, and connection with spirituality. I want to facilitate the viewer's attendance to their relationship with themselves and with the living Earth.
By inviting the observer's mind to a softer place and returning to the essential, I can connect with them in the emotional realm. From there, true feelings emerge, and the mind becomes a space like a garden.
I pursue themes of beauty, calmness, and mindfulness, the value of the handmade. Above all, I want to stimulate the desire to practice deep respect for nature; part of that respect comes with interaction and time. It is by engaging in connection with nature we learn to value it, and this is grounded in a deep connection to the self, with our spirit.
When it comes to color, the natural resources available allow me to shape their potential. I explore the pigments' tinctorial richness and hue variations, which give way to different amalgams and varied rates of color absorption on the canvas. On occasions, I consecutively juxtapose the dyes onto the cloth on top of each other or let the pigments bleed out gradually, and I stay open to visual incidents. Other times, I deliberately elevate a particular shade by infusing the surface with the pigment.
Shades and threads affixed to the canvas are delicate but full of character and speak for themselves. Using stitch and thread as a drawing and painting medium, colors and textures entwine and dialogue on the surface of the cloth, building a sense of unity between materials.
I work in a meditative fashion and with the reciprocal interaction between intentioned methodology and total freedom. My process is an intuitive and immersive ritual where I deepen my connection with the spiritual energy of nature, the senses, and myself. What comes into fruition -as a consequence- is the art that can be safely put back into the Earth".