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March 2020
Workshop: Expandable Sketchbooks and Travel Journals with Lucia Leyfield
Lucia is a multi-disciplinary artist specializing in illustration and hand drawn lettering. By day she draws, illustrates and teaches for commercial and private clients. By night (and on holiday) she records her life in intricate handmade journals and artist books. She will be one of the tutors at the CLAS Festival later this year. Synopsis: At this workshop we will make some basic book forms, folded and stitched, which are versatile and adaptable into a number of themed artist books,…
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AGM and Club Day
Speaker: Martin Frost on Vanishing Fore-Edge Painting Details to follow
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Workshop: Foundational with Sylvie Gokulsing
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
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
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