ABOUT ME
I am a Flemish lettering artist and teacher, living and working in the beautiful medieval town of Bruges, Belgium. The drawing bug bit me at a very young age and has never left me. With a calligrapher father and a visual arts graduate mother, I grew up surrounded by art and letters but this meant little to me at the time. I wanted to study Romance languages but finally opted for Fine Arts and graduated in Brussels. For a few years, I worked in my parents' interior design shop where I got the taste for beautiful objects. When the shop closed down, to my surprise I was offered a job as a part time lecturer in embroidery. As a child I had discovered embroidery but never thought I'd make a living teaching this craft. At the same time, after attending a workshop on Roman capitals, at long last I totally fell in love with lettering.
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Since then, as well as being an embroiderer, I have never stopped creating my lettering/illustration art. I work for exhibitions and sale, alternating with commissions. My work has frequently been shown in the prestigious American journal Letter Arts Review and has been exhibited in the US, Japan and Europe. I am also proud to be a Full Member of the British society Letter Exchange. In the last decade I have taught calligraphy in Europe, the US, Canada and Korea. My inspirations include 'outsider art', folk art and Shaker style. I love music, children's book illustrations, typography, languages, and everything to do with nature. I enjoy gardening, walking in the warm evening sun, reading books and take a guilty pleasure in quizzes and puzzles. My work is in many private collections in Belgium and abroad, including that of the Belgian royal court.
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All photos, except for those of the sketchbooks, are made by Jan, my husband: www.aksentfotografie.be