The Calligraphy Group

Leader:  Sue Cornell - calligraphy@ashbyu3a.co.uk - phone 01530 413345

A small but friendly group,we enjoy extending our calligraphy skills through a more experimental and creative approach to writing texts.
We use a range of scripts and have produced some very imaginative pieces both at home and during our monthly meetings.
We usually meet on the second Tuesday of each month at 10am.

10th March

A full house for our March session and it was very productive. Gill provided us all with a copy of the poem - The flight of the Geese by Charles C D Roberts and we spent the morning writing it out in a font of our choosing. There certainly was a variety of fonts including italics, uncial, modern calligraphy and gothicized italics. Formatting the poem was another challenge as we had to decide how to fit the lines onto the paper!! Everybody was concentrating and although we did manage to chat and catch up at coffee time we had a very industrious session.

For our next meeting we hope to present our finished poem, having completed it at home. Then moving on we will spend the time practising the uncial font as most of us have forgotten how to do it! We will then continue with the theme of ‘geese’ and use uncial to produce a written piece of our own choosing in time for the May meeting.

Next session is at Sue’s on April 14th at 10am.

Calligraphy Work Gallery