My Beach Calligraphy Journey
Andrew van der Merwe
Thursday, October 3, 2019 • 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Skylight Gallery, 6th Floor
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco
South African calligrapher, Andrew van der Merwe, has pioneered a new and very different form of calligraphy. In this slide show / lecture he will show and tell how it all began, how it affected his usual calligraphy practice and how it affected him spiritually. "The beach calligraphy is a wonderful enigma. As calligraphers we go to great lengths to make our work archival. We use pH neutral paper, expensive vellum, good pigments and even real gold but here is a form of calligraphy which, at first glance, looks like it has been carved in stone but is as fleeting as a shadow. Why do calligraphy which you know will be gone with the next wave? Why spend years exploring and developing it as an art form?”
Andrew van der Merwe is an exciting and innovative freelance lettering artist and zealot from Cape Town, South Africa. Please see Alphabet, volume 42, numbers 2 & 4, for in-depth articles about him and his work, both at the beach and on dry-land. His Instagram and Facebook handle is @beachscriber.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
Presented by the Friends of Calligraphy and the Book Arts & Special Collections Center of the San Francisco Public Library