I am leaving for South Africa tonight and will be teaching in Jonanesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. I'll be doing David Jones workshops in Pretoria and Cape Town. You won't usually find quite such a large variation of one form within a single panel - the variations are often more subtle and less deliberate in that the letters are simply drawn not traced and made to fit the space. There were a few other very similar G's in this panel as well. David Jones' Beautiful Letter Panels: David Jones' … [Read more...]
David Jones’ beautiful inscription panels
I mean, why are these "beautiful" anyway? The lettering is far from perfect... The inscription reads: "QUIA PER INCARNATI VERBI MYSTERIVM (For by the mystery of the Word made flesh) NOVA MENTIS NOSTRAE OCVLIS LVX TVAE CLARITATIS INFULSIT (the light of thy brightness has shone anew into the eyes of our mind) MINERVA JOVIS CAPITE ORTA (Minerva has sprung from the head of Jove). As an explanation Jones wrote on the reverse of the work: "From the Preface of the Mass of the Nativity used from the … [Read more...]