An exciting journey, exploring monochromatic colour schemes, starting with a singlecolour, extending it to produce a tantalizing range of tints, shades & tones using penmade and drawn letterforms. Armed with a wealth of ideas, there will be choices of smallprojects, using written or decorated drawn words for the final sparkle.      A fun filled tonal treat to keep spice in our calligraphic lives!   Workshop Fee £25: SLLA/NLLA members £30: non-members How to Enrol Please email Nicola Dunn, our events coordinator,…

Instantly recognisable, but little practised - we will give life to this important hand.   Workshop Fee £25: SLLA/NLLA members £30: non-members How to Enrol Please email Nicola Dunn, our events coordinator, who will let you know if spaces are available. If so, Nicola will provide you with online banking or cheque details, and, once your payment is received, she will book your place on the workshop.

In this workshop, Joy discusses the processes of choosing the right colour mount card for a piece of work, how to gauge the right amount of space to leave around the artwork and then cut the aperture out. You will learn the basics and then move onto cutting double mounts and multi aperture mounts - great for grouping a collection of small images together. Even the small pieces of 'waste' card are put to good use, making tiny frames to…

Created mainly for friends and family, the distinctive lettering art of David Jones is based on naive letterforms and early christian inscriptions. This workshop explores these characteristic and quirky letterforms, looks at their origins for inspiration, and their ‘Jones’ arrangements, using either pencils, or crayons, or gouache, (or all three) to create these and some new forms of our own. A opportunity to be inspired and have fun creating and using informal letterforms. Workshop Fee £25: SLLA/NLLA members £30: non-members…

A workshop dedicated to the various elements that defined the layout of north-European Book of Hours between the XIV & XV century and their use: the different alphabets, their modern evolution and the Lombardic versals. Workshop Fee £25: SLLA/NLLA members £30: non-members We welcome everyone to join our workshops, but offer priority booking for our members until 8 weeks prior to the event. If you are a non-member, you can register your interest for the workshop and your place will…

During this two day workshop we will explore a variety of ways of adding gold leaf to a design, using both simple and more challenging techniques. Starting with the application of gold leaf flat to the page using a variety of traditional and modern gilding sizes, we will progress to reconstituting and laying manuscript gesso, gilding with loose leaf gold and burnishing to a high shine. Participants can expect to produce a reference page of gilding trials, discovering which method…

Italic, automatic pen