Presented here are some selected works that showcase the talents of our Guild members.
Click here for members work produced for the Perth Royal Agricultural Society’s Craft Exhibition.
Doug Hughes: Doug hand lettered this piece using a Pointed pen, Gouache and Coloured pencil on Fabriano 500g paper.
Doug’s striking Hand Lettered exercise explores the contrast between bold gothic-blackletter forms and expressive flowing gold lettering. The central lettering is painted dark green gouache, with strong angular forms creating a dramatic focal point. Surrounding it, delicate gold letterforms with flourishes add movement and spontaneity to the composition.
Jeanette Fuller: Fraktur hand, scribed with a 6mm Parallel pen 6.0mm with a Pilot pen ink cartridge Illustration produced using Koh-I-Noor watercolour paint.
The meaning of the word Poltroon. It is a noun it means a spiritless, contemptible coward, wretch.
LEFT: Sprays over a card cutout made space for a passage from a Manifesto by the Futurist, Marinetti.
CENTRE: Many layers of colour and lettering are overlaid by folded pen lettering of part of a poem by W H Auden
RIGHT: This folded cartridge paper sculpture was cut in block letters with one word in pen lettering. It says Manʼs beauty is in the beauty of his writing.
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in Baybayin, it is an ancient Filipino script. Used in parts of the Philippines before and during the 16th – 17th centuries. Spanish colonisation led to the adoption of the Latin alphabet which led to the Baybayin’s decline.
Martin used the words by Jack London to surround a pattern made with the Japanese Orizomegami technique. Orizomegami is the Japanese art of folding and dyeing paper to create vibrant, repeating patterns.
