Workshop, Saturday 23 March 2019 Dressed in her trademark colours of red, white and black, Rachel gave SLLA members a one day workshop on abstract designs and large letters using a flat brush. Starting with examples of her wonderful abstract
Toni Watts: Art & Illumination – Medieval Techniques in Modern Application
27 November 2018 Toni Watts was the speaker for our final social evening of 2018. Perhaps surprisingly, art was not her first career choice. She trained first as a doctor, then became a wildlife artist and then moved into
Monoline Lettering with Mark L’Argent
Monoline Lettering • 17 November 2018 The last SLLA workshop of 2018 was Monoline Lettering with Mark L’Argent. Mark gave us a demonstration in examples of basic Monoline compressed capitals. He explained how to achieve harmony in groups of
Clerkenwell Walk – 26 June 2018
Robert Dunn led another of his successful City walks, this time around the Clerkenwell area. Starting at the Barbican, members went first to Charterhouse Square, stopping on the way to admire Florin Court of Poirot fame, and its Art Deco
Medieval Fayre – 16 June
Members of SLLA had a lovely sunny day to set up their stall at the Medieval Fayre on Streatham Common. Lots of interest from the public, cards, trays and tea towels for sale, lots of children encouraged to try calligraphy
Viva Lloyd: Cnut Charter Hand Workshop
30th June 2018 What a great workshop we had on Saturday with Viva. She began with a brief history of the Cnut Hand, which dates from the Cnut Charter of 1018 written by Eadvius Basan. Viva also provided us with copies of
In the Merry Month of May
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