February 2024 Minuskilian with Josie Brown

September 2023
Versals with Janice McClelland

June 2023 White on White

March 2023 Roundhand with Kath Partington

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February 2023 Chalkboard Style with David Simons

January 2023 Colour Mixing with Josie Brown

November 2022 - Lino Printing with Iain Hodgkinson

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October 2022 - Cursive Gothic with Janice McClelland

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September 2022 - Formal Italic with Ann Mason

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June 2022 - Holy Books with Deborah Morton

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May 2022 - Borders and Decorations with Sylvie Gokulsing

April 2022 - Copperplate with Joy Daniels

March 2022 - Beyond the Literal Letter with Rachel Yallop

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January 2022 - Rotunda with Peter Halliday

What a lovely day we had with Peter Halliday, learning Rotunda. Very like Gothic, but much more reader-friendly with a more rounded appearance. Peter was very gentle with us - whilst focusing on script analysis as a group, and drawing our attention to the pen angle, x-height, size etc,etc, he let us loose without making us do miles and miles of alphabet practice. Yippee! And we had a few twiddly initial letter decorations, too! You know the sort of thing. (To complete the day I had noodles for tea, inspired by the margin decoration, hahaha!). At the end of the day, Peter showed us a Kelmscott facsimile page which used the Rotunda hand printed from blocks. Just to prove that it was something easily readable! So, thankyou Peter! A cracking day.

LEGENDE & VARIATIONS

October 2021 with Janice McCleland

Legende is a typeface designed by Ernst Scneidler (1882-1956) in the 1930s. Schneidler was a typeface designer, calligrapher, illustrator and teacher who studied both architecture and art. He designed a large number of typefaces, but Legende is the one perhaps best suited to the broad-edged pen. It has been adopted as a calligraphy script and is open to a variety of adaptations. As well as the broad-edged pen, it is easily adapted to a flat brush and even a pointed pen.

We had an excellent day with Janice, it was just so nice to actually go through the process of ruling up, tweaking pen-angles, dipping into ink, and generally settling down to the focused concentration of learning a new hand.

KULFIC SQUARES

September 2021 with Frank Zobel

We had a fabulous workshop with Frank, and he gave us all a challenge to get the little grey cells working, trying to work out how to make letterforms fit into the grid he gave us.