Text as Texture

On the last weekend of August, one of the calligraphy groups I belong to hosted a Victorian calligrapher Deirdre Hassed for a weekend workshop. The title of the workshop was Text as Texture.


On the first day of the workshop, Saturday, we took a formal approach with Deirdre bringing some great examples by herself and other well known calligraphers of how text can be used as texture in a piece. After studying these examples we practiced creating textures and built up our own repertoire. On the Sunday we spent time looking at and developing more experimental ways of creating texture with our texts.
Tall and thin, lettering written over itself, spirals, text written with alternative writing implements, all gave us a different way of both looking at text and creating a piece.

My work in progress contains the use of uncial, writing the same piece of text, over and over on itself, so that it can no longer be read but instead is now a texture.

All rights remain with the artist - Uncial Text as Texture

More examples of the workshop will be up soon on the Calligraphy Southcribes, Inc blog http://calligraphysouthscribes.blogspot.com.au/  and you can also check out the website of our tutor Deirdre http://www.calligraphicworks.com/