by Teucer Wilson | Sep 10, 2013 | Lettercutting
I have been working on a stone to go outside the entrance to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. It is being commissioned by the Hospital Arts Project, in conjunction with the Organ Donation Department of the hospital. It is being carved out of a large block...
by Teucer Wilson | Feb 11, 2012 | Lettercutting
One of my current obsessions is looking at 17th and 18th Century memorials, and Norfolk has a fine selection of these. Here are a few I photographed recently in Coltishall. [slideshow] I install my own memorial work all over Britain, and am always looking out for good...
by Teucer Wilson | Oct 18, 2011 | Lettercutting
This slate was quarried until the early 1900’s in the Charnwood Forest area, and was used for a lot of the Vale of Belvoir Angel memorials as well as for earlier slates and memorials all around the east midlands. There were several small quarries as far as I...
by Teucer Wilson | Jun 14, 2011 | Lettercutting
On our recent trip to Derbyshire, we visited the village of Eyam which was very close to where we were staying. Eyam is known as “the plague village”. In 1665 the village tailor received a parcel from London and it contained some bundles of material and...
by Teucer Wilson | Jan 24, 2011 | Design, spacing & digital, Influences & Discoveries
Some wonderful German lettering. The first image here shows the lettering produced by the workshop of Sepp Jacob in Germany. The work he produced was very sculptural and direct and a wonderful blend of good strong lettering and an understanding of materials. This...
