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Third International Calligraphy Exhibition in Bruges, 1989.
For several years, an exhibition about lettering art was set up in a beautifully restored house in a small dead-end street in Bruges, Belgium. Every three years, during summer, people could visit this internationally renowned exhibit and enjoy a magnificent setting. If I'm not mistaken, there have been 8 exhibitions in total. A select gathering of internationally renown calligraphers and letter carvers as such had never happened before.
For several years, an exhibition about lettering art was set up in a beautifully restored house in a small dead-end street in Bruges, Belgium. Every three years, during summer, people could visit this internationally renowned exhibit and enjoy a magnificent setting. If I'm not mistaken, there have been 8 exhibitions in total. A select gathering of internationally renown calligraphers and letter carvers as such had never happened before.
From left to right:
Top: Eric Marland (UK)-Oswald Schelstraete (B)-Sepp Jacob (D)-Oswald Schneider (D)-Jef Bultynck (B)-Werner Schneider (D)- Kristoffel Boudens (B)-Zhang Din (CH)
Bottom: John Skelton (UK)-Sarah More (UK)-Claude Mediavilla (F)-Els Baeckelandt (B)-Elmo Van Slingerland (NL)-Goedele Soetewey (B) - Jef Boudens (B)-Pieter Boudens (B)-Christine Wagner (D)-Joke Boudens (B)
Not in the picture: Will Carter (UK), Kevin Cribb (UK), Gerald Fleuss (UK), Gaynor Goffe (UK), Roger Gorrindo (F), Franck Jalleau (F), Jean-Claude Lamborot (F), Jean Larcher (F), Nadine Lebacq (B), John Nash (UK), Hannu Paalasma (SF),
David Parsley (UK), Tom Perkins (UK), Katharina Pieper (D), Leonid Pronenko (USSR), John Stevens (USA), François Thivolle (F), Jack Throwbridge (UK), Ernst Vollmer (D), Mary White (D)
A small selection of the exhibited work:
Elmo Van Slingerland Werner Schneider
John Stevens
Kevin Cribb Kristoffel Boudens Tom Perkins
Sepp Jacob Pieter Boudens
Katharina Pieper Sarah More
Christine Wagner Leonid Pronenko
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A simple pencil drawing can be so satisfying. Slowly and carefully drawing, focusing on the area just below the pencil, observing every detail of the subject. I try to draw every day. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a Hungarian-American psychologist is the architect of the notion of FLOW, which is “being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement and thought follows inevitably from the previous one. Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost.” And an old Chinese saying, quoted by David Hockney, says: “Drawing needs three things, the heart, the hand and the eye, two won’t do.”
