CLAS Intermediate Diploma 2017 (Distinction)
CLAS Accredited Tutor 2019
DBS clearance

Foundational Hand, Italic, Roman Capitals, Modern Calligraphy
Tutor offers CLAS Diploma mentoring to Intermediate level

£200 plus expenses

https://www.gloryletteringstudio.co.uk/beginners-calligraphy-online-course/

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Retreats at Marlborough College Summer School: https://summerschool.co.uk/

BA (Hons) Degree in Graphic Design
CLAS Intermediate Diploma
CLAS Fellowship
Cert. Adult Ed 7307
DBS checked

All Levels: Uncials, Half Uncials, all the Blackletter scripts, Italics, Modern Gothic, Modern Gothic Capitals, Celtic Angulars, Logos, Monograms, Historical Decorative Capital Designs including Celtic, Romanesque, Medieval and Renaissance, A Modern Medieval Abstract Capital Design and An Illuminated Medieval Letter for Beginners

£200 plus travel expenses

Online classes and demonstrations are available. Please contact the tutor for details.

To be agreed with tutor

Workshops listed are based on one day but can be expanded to two days

Tutor can also offer one-to-one tuition at home in Sandwich

Also workshops for secondary school age children (or Beginners) in Medieval calligraphy and decoration, including an experience using quills. This can be adapted for a week project, a two-day workshop, a day workshop or even for a minimum one-hour session.

Diploma in Advanced Calligraphy, Roehampton Institute (now University), 1989
Fellowship of SSI awarded in 1988
Honoured Fellow of CLAS

Extensive list.  Email tutor to request a PDF.

€650 per day plus expenses

Check out calligraphy.tv which offers masterclasses in the form of online videos.

Carrying Tradition in a Digital World.  An inspirational multi-media presentation incorporating both traditional and avant-garde calligraphy.

Free with 4 day workshop bookings

Minimum 4 days booking required for international venues. (i.e. outside of Ireland). A PDF with more information may be requested by emailing tutor.

CLAS Accredited Tutor
HSDAD in Calligraphy
Heraldry & Illumination, Cert Ed.

Wide range of scripts, their derivatives and personalised versions; Traditional Materials – vellum, quills, egg tempera, specialising in ancient and modern methods of gilding; lots of suitable bindings and folded paper structures including dip- and triptychs; dry layering technique; embossing; lettering in metal point; lettering on 3-D objects; designing multi-text panels; artistic inspiration for calligraphers; exploiting principles of design, ‘Writing on Both Sides’ – creative (literary) writing for calligraphers

£220 per day plus expenses

Exploiting Principles of Design
Designing Multi-text panels
Manuscript Book Design – traditional to contemporary
Mix ’n Match Decorative Styles

Introduction to or developing and refining major hands including:

• Mouse Roman
• Anglo Saxon Minuscule
• Gothic Cursive Scripts
• Contemporary Legende
• Minuskilian (lower case to Kilian capitals)
• Pointed Pen Half Uncial
• Pointed Pen Italic

20th Century German Lettering
Folded diptychs and triptychs
Flexagons and Flip Flops
Japanese Butterfly Binding (perfect for journals)
Cut Letter Folded Paper Box Frame
Dry Layering Techniques
Irresistible Resist Techniques
Penning a Rainbow
Archibald Knox Design work

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Tutor for Traditional Techniques and Teaching Calligraphy Specialist Skills Awards. Tutor for the Basic Teaching Skills online course. Willing to coach for CLAS Certificates and Diplomas, happy to run linked workshops with appraisals of interim work. Long distance travel only for two-day workshop.

CLAS Accredited Tutor

• Copperplate
• Pointed Pen Uncial
• Celtic Knot work – square, triangular & circular knots
• Pointed Pen Patterns and Floral Design

£200 plus travel expenses

Tutor offers Zoom classes on all the above, contact tutor for details

BA (Hons) Fine Art
PGCE Certificate in Education (Primary & Secondary)
Society of Scribes ATS 29 Graduate
CLAS Intermediate Diploma
CLAS Accredited Tutor
DBS Clearance

• Edward Johnston’s Foundational Hand for Beginners
• Ben Shahn, Creative lettering with automatic pens
• Modern Calligraphy with pointed pen
• Monograms – design your own
• Matisse Lettering – Colour, Cut outs and collage
• Lucienne Day Geometric Lettering design

£200 plus materials and travel expenses

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A short history of Calligraphy
Medieval Herbals

£100 plus travel expenses

Tutor is a qualified and experienced Teacher of both Primary, Secondary, HE, GCSE, A Level and Adult Classes. Please contact tutor directly if you wish to discuss a specific workshop or project. For one-to-one tuition please contact tutor directly.

BA Hons, P.G.T.C. Surrey Diploma in Art and Design
HFCLAS
FSSI

Any calligraphic topics including foundational hand, uncial and variations, italic and variations, Carolingian, Roman capitals and variations, San Vito capitals, pressure & release capitals, versals and variations, copperplate, ‘modern’ calligraphy/copperplate variations, flourish design, analysing historical scripts. See website for details.

£200 plus travel expenses

Tutor offers online classes and one-to-one tuition via Zoom

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Teaches short courses at various centres and offers correspondence courses, one- or two-day workshops, series of workshops, can offer longer tuition. See website or contact for further information. Correspondence courses are available. Check the website for details. Teaches at the Princes School of Traditional Arts, London, Flatford Mill Field Studies Centre, Suffolk and at West Dean College, Sussex. Tutor is happy to mentor individuals for the CLAS Diplomas. Contact tutor to discuss.

CLAS Diploma in Calligraphy (Intermediate) 2015
Teaching Calligraphy Certificate of Skills 2017
CLAS Accredited Tutor 2018
DBS clearance and public liability insurance

Formal calligraphic hands and modern variants – both broad edge and pointed pen. Tutor can tailor a workshop to suit your requirements.

Other Topics:

• Pencil Gothics
• French Ronde Roundels
• Rotunda script with bejewelled letters
• Notan – Light / Dark Harmony

Contact tutor for details. Suitable for beginners and those with some experience.

£220 plus travel expenses

Tutor can run online classes and can set up the above workshops via Zoom

Copyright & Calligraphy

£100 plus travel expenses

Can teach calligraphy as a skill for Duke of Edinburgh Award and small workshops for children. One-to-one tuition available.

FCLAS

Painted letters on wood. Painted surfaces. One-to-one tuition for beginners. 1 or 2 day workshops at Rowde for up to 8 participants.

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Please see www.artatclevancy.co.uk for workshops at Rowde. Tutor’s local UFO (Unfinished Objects) Group meets in tutor’s studio at Rowde every Monday afternoon, 2-5pm, for calligraphy, all levels of experience, cake and friendship.

Qualified Teacher (University of Nottingham)
CLAS Intermediate Diploma (Distinction)

• Beginner – Roman, Uncial, Foundational, Italic, Carolingian, Gothic, Half Uncial, Neuland
• Variations of the above
• Design and Layout
• Creating Contrast
• Runes & Rennie Mackintosh
• Lombardics
• Celtic Knotwork without joining dots
• Paper structures – little books, boxes, hangings, etc.

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Weekly classes held in East Riding. Contact tutor for details.

BA Hons, Calligraphy & Bookbinding (University of Surrey – Roehampton), Post. Grad Cert in Digital Technology (University Hertfordshire)
City & Guilds Adult Education Teaching Certificate
CLAS Accredited Tutor
Elected Fellow of Art Workers Guild (London)
Full member of Letter Exchange (London)

As a seasoned professional, I run a number of varied workshops – email me directly for the full illustrated list – including Modern Versals, Monoline Variations, Gilding, Quills, Simple Book-making, Painted letters, Cut Letters, Embossing, All Traditional Calligraphy Scripts and several more.

For 2022 – 23 Season: £275 – 350 (dependent on workshop topic) + Travel expenses

Online classes and demonstrations are available. Please contact the tutor for details

• Tutor offers one to one tuition, and/or mentoring for your calligraphy journey.
• Tutor has room to accommodate groups at tutor’s studio in Harlow, and can tailor masterclasses for small study groups as required.
• DBS clearance
• Personal ‘Public Liability Insurance’ cover is in place for all Students attending tutor’s workshops, or tutor’s studio.
• Tutor is happy to mentor individuals for the CLAS Diplomas. Contact tutor to discuss.

MA
FSSI
FCLAS
Full member of Letter Exchange

Illustrated talks and lectures only

Calligraphy and lettering, wall projects

£200 – £250 plus travel expenses

FCLAS
College of Art Graduate in Art & Design, NDD Ceramics, PDip Ceramics, Lettering, Writing & Illumination
Art Teacher’s Diploma, Cert Ed. ATS

• Preparing a refined Caroline minuscule script
• An adventure with colour. Making little gems about contrast, hues, cold and warm colours, light, dark and complementary colours with brush, scissors and glue
• Contrasts – less is more. Exploring design, layout and contrast in preparation for a small piece of work
• White writing over delicate backgrounds
• Basic Heraldry – The Shield. Proportions, colour, ordinaries and charges
• All that Glistens – Exploring the potential of various gold mediums
• Adolf Bernd – Exploring extraordinary capital letters and subtle colours
• Art Deco and Art Nouveau revisited – Elegant letter forms and rich backgrounds
• The Staffordshire Hoard – Animals and motifs in gold leaf and colour
• Surface backgrounds – a dictionary of workable surfaces and mediums
• Contrasts – Linear Uncials form this exiting design and colour workshop

The above workshops are for all abilities.

£200 – £250 plus expenses. May require an overnight stay.

Tutor has many years experience of teaching Art, Design and Calligraphy and is open to requests.

CLAS Fellow and CLAS Accredited Tutor
Full member of Make Southwest
Diploma Art and Design
City and Guilds Adult Education Teaching Certificate

• Woven words – Calligraphic artist’s books
• Making a Mark – Calligraphic texture using different tools
• Create – Expressive and textural lettering
• Italic – Dancing, expressive and variations
• Sketchbook – Art and lettering using your sketchbook tool

£200 plus travelling expenses

CLAS Accredited Tutor
Fellow of CLAS
Fellow of SSI
Certificate in Education. Teaching in Adult Ed since 1987

• All the main scripts and variations
• Personal variations of Uncial: Unleashed, Pointed Pen or Drawn. Can be combined with, or separate from, Celtic decorative techniques
• Black letter: Textura, Fraktur and Contemporary versions including Rudolf Koch
• Batarde (Gothic Cursive)
• Traditional and Contemporary Gilding: Illumination, Medieval miniatures, Illuminated letters combined with watercolour based on Pacioli’s geometry
• ‘East meets West’: Italic variation, can be presented in a concertina book
• ‘A Piece of Persia’: Personal variation of Italic with an Arabic flavour, combined with Persian style decoration
• Anglo-Saxon pointed minuscule
• Bookbinding structures: single or multi-section, Limp vellum binding, Artist’s pocket book, Concertinas and their many variations
• Lovely Little Books

£200 per day plus travelling expenses

Most topics can be adapted for online delivery. Please contact tutor to discuss.

Copyright & Calligraphy

Tutor is happy to mentor individuals for the CLAS Diplomas. Contact tutor to discuss. Author of Celtic Calligraphy (1999), Complete Guide to Calligraphy (UK), and Complete Calligraphy Skills (USA) 2015.

CLAS Diploma (Intermediate)
Teaching Calligraphy Specialist Skills Award
CLAS Accredited Tutor

All workshops are on Zoom only.

• Calligraphy for Beginners and Improvers
  • Foundation Hand and variations
  • Italic – formal, cursive and capitals
  • San Vito capitals
  • Uncial – angled and flat pen and pointed pen
• Drawn Lettering
  • “Creative Capitals”: design your own modern versals
  • “An Eye for Inspiration”: lettering design inspired by the work of Lucienne Day
  • “An Eye for Inspiration”: lettering design inspired by the work of Paul Klee
  • Kilian Capitals: a study of Kilian’s work & capital letter forms
  • Decorated Capitals from The Book of Kells: drawing and decorating our own versions of these exquisite letters. The workshop incorporates a masterclass in using coloured pencils
  • “The Letter Pictures of Adolf Bernd”: a look at his work, using watercolours and mixing his subtle shades
  • “Fantastic Elastic Italic”: a study of ligatures and loops of cursive italic

Contact tutor if you have a particular topic in mind.

Zoom sessions are scheduled to be most effective for teaching and giving feedback. Contact tutor for details.

Also available are online distance learning courses in Foundation Hand and Roman Capitals. Contact tutor for details.

FCLAS
FSSI
BA (Hons) in Education, Cert. Ed. in Teaching
CLAS Accredited Tutor
Society of Botanical Artists Diploma
Art School Trained 5 years
Freelance Illustration & Graphics
Author of several books some co-authored with Mary Noble

Italic, Flourished Italic, Manipulated / Rhythmic Italic, Swash Capitals (Italic Caps with a Flourish), Vivacious Versals, Carolingian Script, Roman Capitals, Beautiful Bâtarde, Rustics with a Large Pen and/or Brush, Uncials, Half-Uncials, Copperplate, Painting for Calligraphers, Creative Colour in Calligraphy, Texture-Colour-Pattern, Modern Versals and Decorative Letters, Gilding and Illumination, Modern or Traditional Illumination, Working with Vellum, Miniature Painting, The Magic of Colour Mixing, Simple Decorative Books, Concertina Books, Botanical Watercolour Painting (on its own or for Calligraphy), Botanical Art with Coloured Pencils

£200 – £220 + travel expenses

Available at £50 per hour. Contact tutor for details.

Tutor is able to offer in all the subjects above – Calligraphy, Gilding and Illumination and Botanical Art to small groups of 2-6 in tutor’s studio at home on either Saturday or Sunday. Please contact tutor for details.

BA (Graphic Design)
FCLAS
Full Member of Letter Exchange
C&G 7407 Teaching Certificate
CLAS Accredited Tutor

2 days or longer, by arrangement

Skill level: Mostly Intermediate and/or Advanced, but Beginners with some knowledge of letterforms also welcomed.

Fuller description of topics – current and new – available on request. Please contact tutor for details. Multi-page illustrated workbooks accompany main topics (at extra cost).

The Calligraphic Landscape (includes 2 digital presentations): Exciting exploration using letters, single words or longer texts as a visual expression of elements of landscape, seascape or even mindscape

Lettering as drawing:
a. Outline & overlap – ancient to modern, from historical models towards more abstract forms
b. Drawn, cut, torn: Using elements from a), to develop cut and torn letterforms, geometric and more

Free range writing: Using handwriting & traditional forms lead, via unusual sources, towards designing a unique alphabet

Space exploration for calligraphers: A sideways look at calligraphic composition problems. Abstract layout experiments lead to a more intuitive approach to design. Digital presentations.

Monoline Matters/Scintillating Skeletons*: (All levels) Focusing on proportions of monoline Roman capitals & exploring textural pattern. A fun confidence booster.

Illustrated letters for the 21st century*: Designing decorated / illustrated letters to reflect current life & times over the Covid-riven years. Useful for any sort of ephemera – greetings cards, name cards, whatever your imagination can supply!

Also available:
Painting techniques for illuminated letters and heraldry*
Basic scripts: (All worked from historical models) Foundational, Italics, Angled pen uncials*

New workshop topics (in preparation):
1. Rampant Romans*: With attention to detail, proportion and spacing of Roman capitals, variations in size, weight & colour, create more contemporary effects in hand-made books or as broadsheets
2. Generating new forms: Create new and individual letters, capitals or minuscules, from traditional sources and putting your own spin on them, using different tools & materials
3. Where are you going with that? – Bring existing ‘problem’ pieces for discussion. Troubleshooting and in-depth exploration of current projects that aren’t ‘working’, finding strategies to sort out the problems

*Available as online classes / demonstrations via Zoom

£275 per day (2 days minimum), plus travel/expenses

Tutor can offer some online classes and demonstrations via Zoom. (See asterisked topics in main listing, but will discuss others to suit). Contact tutor for details on content, duration and fees.

How I got here from there: A calligrapher’s journey Europa Scriptorium, a unique international experiment
Tales of an illuminator – and the day I met the Queen

Note: These are digital, not slide presentations and so require a digital projector.

£100 for 1.5 to 2 hours presentation, as an evening session within a 2-day (or longer) workshop
As a separate event: £100 plus expenses

Willing to teach master classes. Will travel to teach out of tutor’s local area, if overnight accommodation can be allowed for.

MA
Higher Surrey Diploma
HFCLAS
FSSI
Full Member Letter Exchange

• Illuminated Letters, based on modern or historical styles (1 day)
• Illuminated borders (1 day)
• Islamic (Persian and Ottoman) illumination (1 or 2 days)
• Monograms and Ciphers (1 day)
• Writing in gold (1 or 2 days)
• Illuminated Beasts (2 – 3 days)
• Heraldry for Calligraphers (1 day taster)
• CLAS Certificate Heraldry for Calligraphers – a series of four workshops over one year
• Other illumination, heraldry and calligraphy subjects on request

£250 per day plus travel expenses

• Herald Painter and Scrivener (my work)
• Coin and Medal Design
• Royal Charters
• Islamic Illumination
• Other subjects related to historical illuminated manuscripts and heraldry on request

£150 plus expenses

Cert ED in teaching Adults
FCLAS and CLAS Accredited Tutor
FSSI
DBS clearance for working for a national charity

Happy to devise a specific topic for your group. Otherwise:

Scripts: Bouncy Foundational; Uncials ancient and modern; Riotous Rustics; Creative Capitals; Pointed pen capitals; Italic variations; Gestural Italic

Techniques: Broad Brush intro; Broad Brush Uncials; Broad Brush Rustics; Teeny Weenie Writing; Writing In and On Gold; Banish Border Boredom (Pen patterns explored); Run with the Ruling Pen

£200 plus travel (Tutor has a Senior railcard)

£50 per hour plus £10 if using tutor’s Zoom account

Negotiable. Tutor is currently preparing “Make the Letters do the Work!”

Contact tutor for details

Tutor is happy to travel but as as tutor lives on the south coast, anywhere far west or north may require an overnight stay.

Studied calligraphy at Reigate School of Art & Design in the early 1970s
HFCLAS
FRSA
FAWG
FTA
Full Member Letter Exchange

Drawn lettering and letter carving in stone. Carving workshops are for a minimum of two days.

£200 – £250 plus travel expenses

Teaches at West Dean College, Sussex

HFCLAS
FSSI
CLAS Accredited Tutor
Post Graduate Certificate in Education
National Diploma of Art and Design
BA degree (Graphics and Illustration)

All Levels:
Uncials, Half Uncials plus, Italics,
Cut paper Lettering, plus sculpted letters,
Embossing with extra PZAZZ,
Angular Caps with Celtic Charisma,
Letters Unlimited (3D & Shadow letters)
Vivacious Versals, drawn, delicate & delicious,
Monochrome Magic & Tantalising Tones,
Fantastic Foldies, Creative Colour for all occasions,
Black & White Bonanza,
Black & White, formal & informal,
Nicely Neuland, drawn, decorated & delicious, Decorated Contemporary Capitals,
Terrific Tunnel Books, Welter of Watercolour
See website for details

£200 plus travel expenses

Willing to teach master classes

FCLAS
CLAS Accredited Tutor
BA Hons Graphic Design (Illustration)
PGCE / ATD

Basic Heraldic Skills for Calligraphers, CMYK Colour Theory and Mixing, Handmade maps with lettering, Brush Uncial Flutter Book, Illuminated letters, Historiated initials, Roman cursive hand.  Design, colour theory, painting techniques, coloured pencil techniques, collage, ruling pen, make your own pens, pattern and letters, anything on the art side of calligraphy and lettering

£250 plus travel expenses

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Tutor has many years’ experience teaching Art and Calligraphy and is open to requests.

First class honours degree in calligraphy and bookbinding
Fellow of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators
CLAS Accredited Tutor

Drawing for the Terrified
Calligraphy and Paper Cutting
Colour Tips for Calligraphers
Pointed Brush Calligraphy

£250 for a full day plus travel

Brush Lettering

From Idea to Artwork, Keeping a Sketchbook

£100 plus travel expenses

Mentoring: If you are a committed calligrapher or creative interested in receiving mentoring or lettering support the tutor would love to work with you. The tutor will help you explore creative blocks and unhelpful assumptions, clearing the way for you to reach your goals. Contact the tutor for more details.

Diploma in Graphic Design
Diploma in Intermediate Calligraphy
Teaching Calligraphy Specialist Skills Award
CLAS Accredited Tutor

Copperplate
Modern Calligraphy
Flourishing
Offhand Flourishing
Fraktur with a Flourish
Hand Drawn Lettering… A fun course with endless possibilities of styles!
Various traditional scripts for beginners: Foundational, Italic, Gothic

£200 per day plus travel expenses

Online classes and demonstrations are available. Please contact the tutor for details.

Better with Letters – A Way of Life… My Artistic Journey
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£80 plus travel expenses

Private tuition also available. Please contact tutor for more details.

CLAS Accredited Tutor

Bister Powder & Bister Ink Techniques for Calligraphers (Tutor can supply Bister powder)
Blooming Letters (using fresh flowers)
Make a Calligraphic Gift Box for Special Occasions

£200 per day plus expenses

Tutor has 20 years’ experience teaching calligraphy for Kent Adult Education (1999-2019) and since 2019 runs her own weekly calligraphy classes for beginners & improvers in Maidstone, in Otford near Sevenoaks, and online via Zoom, covering the traditional calligraphic hands and modern variants – both broad edge and pointed pen.

One-to-one tuition available.

CLAS Accredited Tutor
PTTLS qualified
HND Reigate School of Art and Design (Distinction)

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Textile Designer
Media Designer
Awarded with the Cultural Award of the County of Bayreuth
Board Member Schreibwerkstatt Klingspor Offenbach Full member LX
FCLAS
Professional Calligrapher

Speedy & Wow! – Pimp up your italic
A whole universe from a pointed brush
Who is afraid of Rudolf Koch – The person & artist Koch and his approach to gothic letterforms
Fresh & Fancy – Lindisfarne Gospels: a contemporary approach to its drawn and painted letters

€600 per day plus expenses

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BA(Hons) Graphic Design, Ravensbourne College of Art & Design
MA, Graphic Design and Expressive Calligraphy, Central School of Art & Design
Founder Member of Letter Exchange
Honoured Fellow of CLAS

Copperplate: A Different Look at the Swelling Line
Abstract Designs and Large Letters using a Flat Brush
Looking Beyond the Literal Letter
Drawn and Shaded Letters using Charcoal
Ruling Pen Techniques: Cola, Folded & Pointed Ruling Pens
Yalloplate – Copperplate Variations
Large Italic using Automatic Pens
Pointed Pen Possibilities

£250 a day plus travel expenses

Online classes and demonstrations are available. Please contact the tutor for details.

CLAS Diploma in Calligraphy (Advanced) in 2013
FCLAS 2015

DRY BRUSH:
– Flame or Dancing script
– Roman Capitals, Rustics
– Foundational, Italics, All Gothics

WITH PEN:
– Medieval Carolingian
– Carolingian, Foundational, Italic, Cyrillic Italic
– all Gothics

CREATIVE WORKSHOPS:
– Hearts (embossed, brushed, illuminated)
– Feathers
– Christmas Cards
– Monoline
– Crazy Illumination
– Embossing
– Color and Design
– Black on Black
– Designing modern Scrolls
– Magic Circles

€450 per day plus travel expenses

Please check the tutor’s website for more details

From the Fountain Pen to the Brush

€120