Creative Calligraphy

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My Thursday Creative Calligraphers took a class trip to see the Monet: In the Presence of Nature exhibition at @S_ShieldsMuseum today and thoroughly enjoyed it! @NE_Museums @NationalGallery creative-calligraphy.co.uk/monet-masterpi…

Another short course draws to a close at The Art Room Sunderland. I’m going to miss this lot over the half-term break. Next up, Italics! @SunderlandBID

Lovely to see my Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society affiliated weekly groups featured in the latest Copperplate Special Interest Group newsletter, celebrating Jane Austen on the 250th anniversary of her birth last year. Thanks @calligrability for including us!

Always a pleasure to receive such gorgeous snail mail from my @learnpointedpen calligrabuddy Jo Taylor Calligraphy - we have been literal pen pals for five years now!

✨ 📙A striking new light & sound installation is touring North East England this month, telling the story of Codex Amiatinus - the oldest intact complete Bible in existence. Rivers of Ink is free & open to all. 👉Find out more: brnw.ch/21wZGpR #DUinspire

After what feels like the longest January ever, thank goodness it’s February! This month’s newsletter is out. mailchi.mp/348c71ea0a50/f…

WE ARE SO BACK 🗡️ #museum #northeast #uk #FYP #Heritage

I am very excited to have been asked by the @TyneOperaHouse to run a beginners calligraphy workshop in its new event space in March. Bookings are now live! tynetheatreandoperahouse.uk/whatson/introd…

It's National Handwriting Day today! So here's a perfectly timed post about @EllingtonPens to get you in the mood for writing! creative-calligraphy.co.uk/rediscovering-… AD // This article is based on an impartial review but contains an affiliate link. #NationalHandwritingDay

My first commission of 2026 - adding the names of eight grandchildren to coloured pencil portraits ready to be framed and hung by a proud grandad!

The Monet: In the Presence of Nature exhibition is now open at @S_ShieldsMuseum and I can't wait to see The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil for real, rather than snap away at a cardboard print-out! Monet Masterpiece set to grace South Shields - Creative Calligraphy

New year, new term - and a new class at @OceanRoadCA today. Double the Foundational Hand fun with my Creative Calligraphers this morning and a bunch of new recruits this afternoon!

New year, new term, lovely new room at @OceanRoadCA for my Thursday Creative Calligraphers today. We’re doing Copperplate with a Monet theme to celebrate the new exhibition opening at @S_ShieldsMuseum this weekend. creative-calligraphy.co.uk/monet-masterpi…

My first class of 2026! Very happy to be back teaching at The Art Room Sunderland today. 🎨 creative-calligraphy.co.uk/events

If you’re on my mailing list, you should have received my first newsletter of 2026. If not, you can read it here: mailchi.mp/f5b69bfc418b/h…

With all the wintry weather we’ve had this week I think I can just about getaway with a final Christmas post. This beautiful envelope arrived last month from my @learnpointedpen calligrabuddy Jo Taylor and I love it!

Last year I received some funding through the @BIPCNorthEast to have some branding photography done by the amazing @RJMPhotography1 . Little did I know I'd end up in a magazine celebrating the female founders she worked with in 2025. Read it here: bit.ly/4pXaTSQ

Another Christmas 2025 gift commission, adding a baby’s name and date of birth to photo frame mounts for two sets of proud grandparents! 👣

This was one of the commissions I completed towards the end of last year and as it was a Christmas gift, I couldn't share it until now! It's a Māori blessing, written in uncial script, with the English translation written underneath in pointed pen uncial. #calligraphy