Galleries: Lettering
I find traditional V-cut lettering to be both a delight and a discipline. The clarity and elegance of the original Roman Trajan script is the source and inspiration for my own practice. These qualities I try to carry into each piece of lettering whether it be inscription, headstone or house sign. The light which is caught by the central valley and animates the carving also picks out any flaw, so accuracy is a must.
Surrounded on all sides as we are, by aggressive signage, clamouring for attention, a well-crafted carved script still manages to draw the eye, and hold it.
Alphabet
Hoptonwood Limestone 350mm x 220mm (the stone is flat, in case you were wondering)
Gallery sign
Hoptonwood Limestone
Wentworth Court
Traditional Portland limestone sign with crest and Trajan letters
Burnhope Lodge
Yorkshire Sandstone, carved in-situ
Lodge
Yorkshire Sandstone
Date Stone
Yorkshire sandstone
'then laugh'
Hoptonwood stone. quote from an E.E. Cummings poem
Claire James
Kirkstone-Brathay Cumbrian slate.
Trenewan Plaque
Slate inscription for a community defibrillator project
Coed-helen
Forest of Dean sandstone
Wood cottage
Painted Delabole slate
'Coppice View'
Broughton Moor Cumbrian slate house sign
Boldon house
Hoptonwood Limestone
Column
Portland Limestone inscription reads: 'Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice'
Column detail
Trajan script on Portland Limestone
A to Z
Portland Limestone
Waymarker
Derbyshire Magnesium Limestone
Waymarker detail
Derbyshire Magnesium Limestone
Kilkenny bowl
Kilkenny bowl to commemorate a gifted artist and architect
Pedestal
Portland Limestone
Luna
Welsh slate with plaster insert
Words
Welsh slate inscription from Basil Bunting's 'Briggflats'