Crafts/Expert Profile

Expertise

Lettering Design, Calligraphic Flourishing and Typographic Layout. I can discuss basic tools to an extent, but nothing too extravagent. My fortes are in Blackletter (modified,) Chancery (modified,) Copperplate and other fine point sctipts. 12 years in mostly volunteer settings and private work.

Experience in the area

Taught to children and adults, Sold a handful of pieces, but mostly a labour of love.

What do you like about this subject?

Lettering is one of my only pleasures in life. There is nothing more beautiful and utterly human than written language.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

computers are no replacement for the hand-created manuscript.