Happy customer – calligrapher review

by Claire Gouldcalligraphy projectsPosted on Comments are Disabled

The loveliest email landed in my inbox, after Françoise’s mum’s 80th birthday party last week! With just a week to create something really special, Françoise commissioned me to write several calligraphy pieces for her event. Using emerald green G.F. Smith paper and Winsor & Newton gold gouache, I wrote calligraphy place names for all the …

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Tis a Fearful Thing – calligraphy poem

by Claire Gouldcalligraphy poem gifts, wedding calligraphyPosted on 2 Comments

This poem almost had me in tears. If you’ve ever lost someone close to you, these words will resonate. Writing pieces like this in calligraphy is humbling. Every stroke of the pen has to be as perfect as I can possibly make it. To somehow do justice to this beautiful piece of poetry is a …

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