It is so easy to live in the UK and not look beyond the rainy horizons. But in travelling and teaching abroad, I find time and again that there is such a wealth of talent beyond the channel. The workshop I gave in Perth is no exception. In fact even in Perth, calligraphers are isolated within Australia, because Perth is the largest remote city in the world. The closest large city is Adelaide which is 2000 km away. I was humbled that some calligraphers made journeys by plane of between 2 and 5 … [Read more...]