CLAS Honoured Fellows

Patricia Lovett

I love letters and lettering, colour, gold, vellum, quills and mediæval manuscripts. I also love teaching and talking and have been lucky enough to have taught and lectured all over the world. I was the second chair of CLAS and an Honoured Fellow from its second year. I am now chair of the CLAS Academic Standards Board. I started CLAS Certificates of Competence in Gilding and Traditional Skills and have developed and taught others. I have worked for the British Library, the Crafts Council, Zurich, Tate Gallery, HBOS, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the RAC, etc. My work is in the Fitzwilliam Collection of Contemporary Calligraphy in Cambridge.

I run the CLAS Palæography Special Interest Group, write the Manuscripts Edge and have written the following:

Books

• Creating Letterforms, co-written with Rosemary Sassoon, published by Thames and Hudson, 1992
• Teach Yourself Calligraphy, published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1993
• Calligraphy for Starters, published by Cable Crouch Productions, 1995
• Calligraphy for Starters, video, distributed by Watchword Educational, 1995
• The Young Calligrapher set, for Osmiroid, 1995
• Starting Lettering, co-written with Fiona Watt, published by Usborne, 1996
• Tools and Materials for Calligraphy, Illumination and Miniature Painting, published by C Roberson and Co Ltd, 1996
• A Guide to Calligraphy, for Parker Pen, 1997
• Schmincke Calligraphy Colour Gouache set, 1998 (developed the concept and materials)
• Historical Source Book for Scribes, co-written with Dr Michelle Brown, published by The British Library, 1999 (published by the University of Toronto in the USA)
• The British Library Companion to Calligraphy, Illumination and Heraldry, published by The British Library, 2000 (published by Harry Abrams in the USA)
• Teach Yourself Calligraphy, published by Hodder Arnold, 2003 (completely new edition)

Pieces of work

Flagellum All those phrases which are beating the living daylights out of the English language! Vellum, oak gall ink and vermilion, gold on gesso written with a quill on manuscript vellum.	From A to Z Poem by Ted Walter ©. Schmincke Calligraphy gouache and shell gold written with a quill, leaf gold on gesso, on manuscript vellum. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum.