What a busy month for South London Lettering. Saturday 19 th May we set up a stall at SSI Lay Members’ Day. We put on display work from Founder Members of the association, samples of work from more recent workshops
Silent Calligraphy, St George’s church, Bloomsbury
Like medieval monks before us, SLLA members set up a scriptorium in St George’s Church, Bloomsbury on Saturday, 28 April. The medieval scriptorium would have seen the monks working on illuminated manuscripts, Books of Hours and bible pages amongst other
Katharine Meynell: “Elizabeth Friedlander, Calligrapher, Typographer, Designer”
Our social evening on 24 April, organised by Bridget West, was a talk by Katharine Meynell about Elizabeth Friedlander, after whom the Elizabeth typeface is named. Working during the 1930’s, Elizabeth was forced to leave first Germany and later Italy
Glagolitic to Gothic
Back in the Spring, Robert Weaver, a former Master at Dulwich College and currently Keeper of the Fellows’ Library, organised 2 visits for members of SLLA to the College. During these visits, he kindly showed us many examples of manuscripts
A view of the 2017 Annual Exhibition
This year’s South London Lettering Association annual exhibition put an array of talented artists’ work on display. The theme, Romance to Revolution, truly set the scene for a diverse range of powerful artwork. Held in St Bride Foundation, Fleet St, London, was
Joy Daniels’ mount cutting workshop
30th September, 2017 We all have lots of finished or part finished pieces of work at home that would look so much better if they were mounted. This workshop was designed to show members how to do just that. Joy took
Rachel Yallop, “Taking a line for a walk, my calligraphic journey”
26th September, 2017 Members and guests spent an enjoyable and informative evening listening to Rachel Yallop talking about her life and work as a calligrapher. Probably best known for her beautifully elegant copperplate, Rachel showed slides of her work with the swelling line,
Jan Pickett: Hand Legende
15th July 2017 Great workshop with Jan Pickett on 15th July learning flat pen italic. A hand based on Legende with Italic added – Jan’s regular students have called it Legalic! There was much laughter and some frustration as we learned or
Pointed Brush Lettering workshop with Rosella Garavaglia
27th May, 2017 It was a joy to watch Rosella demonstrate the basic movements and letter shapes, in fact it was quite hypnotic and we thought a good relaxation therapy. However, this was tempered by the frustration of not having
Jan Pickett: ‘It started with a few letters’
24th May, 2017 Many of us have been fortunate to attend workshops given by Jan and her book Decorated Lettering has introduced her to a lot more people. So it wasn’t too surprising that we had a full house when