It's Annual Juried edition of Letter Arts Review again. I am so honoured to have work selected - for the 4th consecutive year. My fellow English calligraphers who were selected were: Cherrell Avery, Gaynor Goffe, Celia Lister collaborating with Clare Whittaker, Tom Perkins and Jan Turner. No-one from South Africa this year or last year. Cherrell has been working in etching, but rather than taking prints the copper etched plate is the finished result. I've asked her if she'll send me some more … [Read more...]
Art in Action – Gaynor Goffe: Left is Right
Spiral staircases went clockwise so that the defenders would be coming from above and have a long swing with their swords held in the right hand. However, in Scotland in the Kerr Clan, there are a number of "lefties" e.g. Sir Andrew Kerr - his spiral staircase went anti-clockwise. I'm a Kerr by marriage and my son Andrew is yet to be knighted and thank goodness we are all right handed!*But this makes the point that on the whole, things such as calligraphy and spiral staircases were designed for … [Read more...]
Learning Italic
Capitals and minuscules: Weekly, 3-4 hours for 6 months – 1 yearThis is going to be a bit like my ideal Foundational Course, which should not be surprising. I think it begins to really diverge as we get further down the line with looser work, pen twists, wild flourishes and crazy tools. But the basics are just that: a solid training with enough interest to sustain the person learning. Foundational people may well want to progress to this.Gestural people may have skipped Foundational, but they … [Read more...]