ARTS & CRAFTS HOLIDAY COURSES 2003
ON THE ISLE OF MULL, INNER HEBRIDES
from April to September
2003
at
The Studio, Ardtun, Bunessan, Isle
of Mull, Argyll, Scotland, PA67 6DN
Proprietor: Mrs G.Charles-Edwards,
M.Phil., MSDI,
The Studio offers courses with
tutors who have been demonstrators at ART IN ACTION from beginners’ calligraphy,
painting and drawing to specialist applied lettering courses. Apart
from the dates of the courses listed below, students may be taught one
to one, in pairs or trios: engraved lettering on glass, clear or stained;
beginners’ courses in Foundational Hand, Uncial, Gothic or Italic; historical
hands for local historians or family history researchers including Scottish
secretary hand and pointed minuscule.
The resident tutor, Mrs. Charles-Edwards,
trained as a graphic designer and letterer 1963-7. At Cardiff Art College
she came under the influence of the lettering historian J.C.Tarr.
She took a Masters’ degree by thesis on the inscriptional lettering of
the early Christian period. She worked as a University Press designer in
Ireland until moving to Oxford in 1975. She has been an Adult Education
Tutor since 1979, and demonstrated lettering on glass at ART IN ACTION
from 1980-1996.
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Under her maiden name of Gifford
Lewis she has published biographies of some of the women artists and writers
of the Celtic Revival: Somerville and Ross, Eva Gore-Booth and Elizabeth
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Blue Glass Window
Demonstration piece from
ART IN ACTION 1996
She has spent most of the year at
her home on Mull since 1989 and in 1993 began to teach a Celtic Calligraphy
course on Iona every August In 1997 she designed and wrote the palaeographical
section of the exhibition to celebrate the 1,400th anniversary of the death
of Saint Columba, a copy of which is now exhibited in the Heritage Centre
on Iona.
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Painting Courses (Tutor:
Monica Horn, ARCA) (now at Innemore)
Monica is a graduate of the Royal
College of Art Painting School, winning the David Murray Landscape Scholarship
on graduation. She worked for St.Clare's Oxford, teaching American University
students to paint. Besides this she has taught in Venice, run her own Summer
School in Oxford and has extensive experience of teaching in Adult Education.
She has recently moved to Somerset to paint, and in 2000 ran painting holidays
on Exmoor as well as teaching for a week in Mull, opening for her house
to the public for Somerset Art Week, and receiving a bursary from Walk
in the Land of Light to produce digital art for their exhibition.
Her chief mediums are acrylics, oil pastels and watercolours, with occasional
excursions into oils and pastels. She has exhibited at the RA Summer Exhibition,
the Museum of Modern Art, and is a member of the Oxford Art Society.
More examples at:
http://www.art.courses.co.uk
| Tutor: Mrs Charles-Edwards, M.Phil.,
MSDI: |
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LETTERING ON GLASS FOR BEGINNERS
10th-14thJune and17th-21stJune.
Basic strap italic and how to apply
it. Two pieces may be completed in the week. Machinery supplied. Students
are to choose their own work pieces.
MAXIMUM of three students.
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| Tutor: Mrs Charles-Edwards, M.Phil.,
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LETTERING ON STAINED GLASS
24th-28th June 2002
Etching and drilled work. One day
for the design and lettering of a single project completed in five days.
Pieces may be assembled and leaded within the week.
MAXIMUM of three students.
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| Tutor: Mrs Charles-Edwards, M.Phil.,
MSDI: |
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A five-day course. Four hours a day
in the Library, Iona. Two days on the half uncial hand of the Book of Kells,
a day with a slide lecture on Iona manuscripts and their relations and
a tour of the Abbey stones collection, and two days on the pointed minuscule
hand of the Book of Armagh.
Mrs. Charles Edwards demonstrates
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CELTIC CALLIGRAPHY ON IONA
4th –8th August 2003
MAXIMUM number eight students Accommodation
on Iona, from B&B to hotel should be booked well in advance.
Course fee £50.
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| Tutor: Dr Martin Wenham, FCLAS
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CUT
LETTERS IN WOOD
Please apply for details
and possible dates. This course schedule can be by arrangement
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Lettering courses at the Studio for
one to three students may be taken with self catering accommodation for
£200 , courses for larger numbers require the students to arrange
their own accommodation which may be done easily through the Scottish Tourist
Board
Details are available from the Tourist
Information Centre, Mull. Tel: 01688 302610
Apply to Fionnphort: 01681 700314 Email:Alice_Lambert@excite.com
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