GR 106 Calligraphy

Ink on paper

Negative space is drawn, good balance of light and dark

Letters in relief done for Hallmark Cards

Pen and ink

Pen and ink

Drawn letters, pen and ink

10 x 7.5

Transfer and shell gold, gouache on slunk vellum

Poem: Sappho

23 x 37

Acrylic and paper on wood - interpretation of a musical composition with characters from the Kannada script substituted for the notes in the composition.

Entrance hall in a surveyor's office, with words taken from a 19th century decree regulating the work of surveyors.

17 x 24, 1983

Text: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 128

Calfskin parchment, stick ink and powdered pigments bound with fish glue (which when dry is impervious to water). Quills.

17 x 24, 1984

Edmonds paper, stick ink, vermillion and black gouache. Bamboo pens and quills.

17 x 24, 1982

Edmonds paper, stick ink, vermillion and black gouache. Bamboo pens and quills.

11 x 16

Six layers of hand-engraved and acid etched glass over a monoprint featuring illustration and blurred scans from the engraved lettering.

25 x 25

Fabric, paper, pigment, ink thread

Text: His Holiness Shri Shantananda Saraswati

41 x 29.25

Ink and applied feather on collage

5.5 x 4.5

Garden twig and ink on Daler layout paper

Packaging for client

1989

Lettering as drawing, curved baselines and shaded lettering form a complete work.

48 x 50

Wool tapestry hand woven on a Norwood loom

Inspired by a course project on writing the spontaneous line

40 x 30

Text: by David Kindersley

Acrylic, masking film, knife, and airbrush on 2-ply plate finish Strathmore paper

19 x 10

Serigraphy and offset printing on paper

33.5 x 28

Blockprinting, gouache, gum-ammoniac gilding on vellum