Lin Kerr Workshop: 'The Art of Herman Killian'

 

 After a run-through of the classical proportions of each letter of the alphabet, Scribes began by tracing Killian's letters from an exemplar of his work, and then designing ligatures linking different combinations of letters and initials. When we felt confident in how to handle Killian's style then Lin showed us how to draw a short phrase inside a circle using Killian style.

The last word is from Lin herself from her blog: "We used Herman Killian's work as a starting point, analysing his letter forms in relation to Trajan Caps. The Northumbrian Scribes are a very active society and there were 22 attendees, with a wide range right up to two members in their nineties. This says something about how friendly and inclusive the society is."

(If you would like to see more of Lin's own work then visit her website at www.limetreestudio.com)

Letters After Lindisfarne Exhibition at the Design Centre, Sunderland University

 
The Letters After Lindisfarne exhibition will be opening on Monday 25 November at the Design Centre, Sunderland University. Due to the large amount of work to be displayed the exhibition will be in two parts: work by artists whose surnames begin with the letters A to J will be on view between 25 November and 6 January and surnames K-Y will be on show from 7 January to 31 January 2014.

There are Private Views for each part of the exhibition: Monday 25 November at 17.30 and on Tuesday 7 January at 17.30.

All are welcome to come and see an amazing exhibition of modern calligraphy inspired by the recent visit of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the north-east.

The 13th Annual Wearmouth Lecture

Susan Moor, chair of The Society of Northumbrian Scribes, will be presenting 'Illuminating Texts', Word and Image before and after Bede, on Saturday 28th September at St Peter's Church, Monkwearnmouth, Sunderland. The lecture begins at 11am and will be preceded by Eucharist at 10am, followed by coffee.

There will also be a display of work in progress by Susan, made during her time as artist in residence at St Peter's.

'Words: Past, Present & Future'. The Society of Northumbrian Scribes Annual Exhibition.

Photographs from the opening of the Northumbrian Scribes exhibition Words: Past, Present & Future at Bede’s World on 5 September. The exhibition closes on 30 September, so hurry up if you want to see some excellent calligraphy!

 

After the official exhibition opening, there was also time for members to see more of the 'Letters after Lindisfarne' artworks. These are around 200 calligraphic pieces produced by calligraphers from around the UK, and will eventually be bound into one book.

This is the Northumbrian Scribes programme for the first half of 2013. Well, the weather has already had a go at the first meeting but hopefully the rest of the workshops will run successfully. The normal meeting place is Bede's World in Jarrow from 10.30 until 15.30.

The January meeting of Northumbrian Scribes had to be cancelled because the weather was so bad but there is another January event to look forward to. Words Set Free is an exhibition of work by members of Letter Exchange, a group of expert typographers, calligraphers and lettercutters and it will be on at the Design Centre in Sunderland from 16 January until 20 February. There is a Private View on 31 January and the details are given above.