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April 2020
AGM and Club Day – CANCELLED
Oxford Scribes AGM and Club Day On Saturday, 4th April (NB changed from our original date of 11th April) we have our AGM & Club Day. As always, there will be other members to catch up with, members’ work to marvel at and be delighted by, and an interesting speaker. Not to mention the AGM, the ‘business’ part of the day (which is always improved by contributions from members). I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at Club Day…
Find out more »May 2020
Workshop: Foundational with Sylvie Gokulsing – CANCELLED
Synopsis: Sylvie is a Fellow of both the Society of Scribes and Illuminators and the Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society. She has been teaching calligraphy for almost 30 years and is currently a tutor on the SSI’s Calligraphy Correspondence Course and Advanced Training Scheme. Her interests lie in the use of formal scripts and include designing family trees, maps, cut work, Hebrew lettering and exploring new structures. After a brief historical introduction we will look closely at Harley 2904, the…
Find out more »June 2020
Workshop: The Wonders of Versals & Compound Letterforms with Gemma Black – CANCELLED
SYNOPSIS: Gemma is a renowned artist and calligrapher, based in Tasmania. She is a Fellow of CLAS and has been a tutor at three CLAS Festivals. She has taught in many countries and examples of her work can be found in numerous public and private collections all over the world. This two-day workshop will comprise the exploration of versal forms from every genre. We will touch on the basic versal and the versal history and will cover chronological…
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Club Day and Summer Party
Speaker: Peter Lawrence on the lettering of William Morris Further details to follow
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October 2020
Workshop: Circular writing, tunnel books, festive twist with Jan Pickett
Details to follow
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