South London Letter Association regularly hosts events for its members. From social events, exhibitions, and other outings, to workshops and courses our events are a great opportunity to get together and share creative ideas about lettering. Most events are free for members, so join SLLA today.
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March 2020
Toni Watts: Gilding (two day workshop)
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…
Find out more »Rosella Garavaglia: “Not on Paper” C A N C E L L E D
The social evening has been cancelled due to spread of corona virus. When approaching a passage, quotation or poem, calligraphers are faced with a number of questions, many in relation to the nature of the text and how to best express it visually. There are so many ways, many possibilities, but we know some are more appropriate than others. We start to explore techniques, different tools and materials following an idea or concept dictated by the nature of the text…
Find out more »April 2020
Archie Proudfoot: The Performance of Type C A N C E L L E D
The social evening has been cancelled due to spread of corona virus. Archie Proudfoot is an artist and sign painter whose work utilises the techniques and the aesthetics of traditional signage to explore our relationship with language. http://www.archieproudfoot.com
Find out more »May 2020
Mary Noble: A Living Legacy of Letters: Event is moved to the next year.
Due to present circumstances the event has been canceled and moved to next year. Mary Noble, a very well know calligrapher, teacher and author, will present a slide show and demonstrate using the recent "A Way with Words" CLAS 25th anniversary exhibition at Snape as examples of how letterers today are using our heritage as a springboard to creativity.
Find out more »Large Italic using Automatic Pens with Rachel Yallop: Moved to next year
Italic, automatic pen
Find out more »June 2020
Rob Dunn: Walk in Central City of London CANCELLED
Due to the continuing Covid-19 situation, the City Walk on 23rd June has been cancelled. Robert Dunn has very kindly agreed to guide the walk next year on Tuesday 22nd June 2021.
Find out more »Paper Cut letters with Sharon Shaw C A N C E L L E D
The social evening has been cancelled due to spread of corona virus. Discover how to incorporate calligraphy into the beautiful craft of paper cutting. In this workshop you will learn how to • embed a letter or a word or a piece of text within a cut paper design • create a piece of work from a sketch to a final design. We will also look at the history of paper cutting and the work of contemporary paper cutting…
Find out more »August 2020
Simple book structures and useful accessories – with Donna Foster
Join us for a relaxing day of making useful things from spare packaging! We will be using corrugated cardboard to make a nib organiser, paper bags to make notebooks, envelopes to make a piano-hinge display book, and (time permitting) seeing how many different book structures we can make which use just one sheet of A4. Re-use, recycle, and . . . relax! Workshop Fee £25: SLLA members £30: non-members How to Enrol Please email Nicola Dunn, our events coordinator,…
Find out more »September 2020
Pen Patterned Shapes with Joy Daniels
Our workshop with Joy Daniels on 26th September will go ahead as a ZOOM CLASS instead of meeting together at Aspire, as originally planned. The class will start with a 1.5 - 2 hour zoom session and then break for 2 hours to work on your own projects, then re-convene via ZOOM , for a further 1.5 - 2 hours to summarise, ask questions and show work. Joy is experienced in teaching via zoom and thinks that this topic…
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