Lasting Marks
Calligraphy Materials, Processes and Conservation
Course Summary
An online video course with leading international calligrapher Denis Brown. Understand the best materials—how to apply and adapt them, and to predict how they will react. Learn how to present your calligraphy at its best—to cut archival mounts/mats and ensure framing and light will not damage artwork in the long term. Denis will discuss the aesthetics of presentation using many inspiring examples. Watch professionally recorded videos totalling over 2.5 hours duration. You will retain non-expiring access to rewatch in the future.
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Live Meetings for Q&A
These have been completed, but recordings are available for all who enrol.
Curriculum
Denis Brown
Denis is internationally renowned as a leading figure in Western calligraphy. Continual development over 35 years followed his full-time education in calligraphy. A master of the broad pen in both traditional and uniquely individual experimental styles, his media include calfskin vellum, paper, glass and film. His works have a unique beauty that is more than skin deep and are occasionally provocative. Denis has taught at the invitation of calligraphy guilds internationally since he was 20 years old and is known for his clarity of explanation in teaching. Also at 20, he was elected as the youngest Fellow of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators while working on The Great Book of Ireland from his studio in Dublin. He has rare tech prowess for a craftsman—his films are professionally produced and artistically presented.
