Julie Chaney

​CALLIGRAPHY • LETTERING • ILLUMINATION

Beautiful poems

Illustrated four line verse by the Japanese poet, Dogen.
Birthday gift from a husband to his wife.

Copperplate style in chinese ink on Fabriano paper.  Blossom painted in watercolour.
Extract from a 43-line handwritten poem - "A New Child" by George Mackay Brown - commissioned by a father as a gift for his children.
​Full poem below.

Italic script, Chinese ink on Fabriano paper.

Getting married

Work in progress

I've become increasingly drawn to decorative patterns, mainly from historical manuscripts but from more contemporary sources too.  This is a gilded piece on vellum I'm working on, my interpretation of an illuminated border fragment by Attavante from a missal of Pope Leo X (Florence, 1513-1521). 

[Source : The Cambridge Illuminations p157]

Illuminated Letters

GILDED AND DECORATED
ROMAN INITIAL C
​Original design.
​Gold leaf and gouache
​on Fabriano Academia paper.
LOMBARDIC INITIAL LETTER S FROM
​A FRENCH PATTERN BOOK, 15TH CENTURY
Gouache on Fabriano Artistico paper.

PERSONAL DECORATED INITIALS


​A hand-painted decorated initial is something lasting, something to be treasured, a thoughtful and individual gift.

​I'll help you select from an exciting array of historical or contemporary
​letter styles and decorative elements to create your personal illuminated letter.  

Favourite colours or themes can be incorporated to produce a beautiful and unique design.

​Gilding and vellum are optional.
​
Please enquire via my Contact page.
Photo of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators stall at Craeftiga held at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk in April 2016. The children are enjoying colouring in outline decorative letters.
Society of Scribes & Illuminators : Children having fun on our stand at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk

TUITION

Calligraphy Classes
at the
Mistley Quay Workshops
Mistley, Essex

• for Beginners and Improvers

• Saturday mornings, 10-1
22 SEPT
6TH OCT
20TH OCT
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£25 per session
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• Wednesdays all day, 10-4 
26th SEPT
10TH OCT
24TH OCT
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£38.50 per session
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TEACHING
at the
​Warner Textile Archive
Braintree, Essex

ITALIC CALLIGRAPHY
FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER 2018
10am-1pm
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DESIGNING ENGLISH
First graphic designers of English texts celebrated in a new exhibition at the Bodleian, Weston Library until April 22nd
about...
Julie is a calligrapher and lettering artist living in the East Anglian countryside. Her starting point for calligraphy was a weekly adult education class at the City Lit in London. Following her move out of the city in 2005, Julie continued with her studies and trained under numerous prominent calligraphers, eventually progressing to a professional level. She accepts commissions and teaches regularly.  

Julie is currently Chairman of the Society of Scribes & Illuminators. She is a graduate of the society's Advanced Training Scheme and is keeper of the their Library and Archives. She is also a member of the Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society and the Letter Exchange.
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