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Pam Harmer

Disciplines

Calligraphy, Drawing and Stone Cutting

Workshops for Ages

5 -16 + adults

Workshops Offered

1. Calligraphy
2. Copperplate with Flourishes
3. 3 Creative Big Writing, using brushes, automatic and wooden pens
4. The story of writing – a practical approach to learning how writing developed. Working with clay, wood, paper, cardboard, pottery, wax tablets, reed pens, wooden stylus’, dip pens, quills, brushes and paint. This can be purely practical for children or given as a talk for adults.
5. Gilding – on paper or stone or wood.
6. Coloured Backgrounds –either as abstract painting or for use as backgrounds for calligraphy.
7. Letter Cutting in Stone – 16+ unless children are particularly capable.
8. Drawing – broad based and highly structured course covering shading and tone, perspective, observation and composition, proportions of the face and figure.
9. Making your own paints.

Artist Statement

Pam is a stone carver and letter cutter. She attained a Fine Arts Degree at Cheltenham, specializing in Painting and went on to obtain her Teachers Certificate at Leeds becoming a fully qualified Secondary School teacher. She is now a sculptor in stone, letter cutter and calligrapher and had a wide skill base. She has exhibited widely, mainly in the South West.

In order to design her lettering, she learnt calligraphy, along with gilding letters, on stone, wood and paper. Her skills enable her to pass this knowledge on to younger generations. She does commissions in designing lettering, cutting them in stone, gilding and calligraphy. Most of these skills can be adapted for any age range and aibility.

Learning these skills is both enjoyable and essential to many future careers, If the skills are not used, in later life they become part of the general knowledge necessary for an understanding of other areas of life and for nurturing the future resourcefulness of students as they grow older. Individuals in any career will find it useful to have one day of calligraphy, or been introduced to the rudiments of drawing. A future musician, for example, will have enjoyed learning gilding techniques to help understand the skills involved with musical instrument making.

Pam has continued to draw throughout her career and ha, in recent years, taken up painting again. She stresses the importance of being able to draw and teaches drawing to stone masons.