Calligraphy retreats, courses & holidays
CLAS Festival of Calligraphy
based: London, UK
An annual festival with world class calligraphic tutors, many of them professional calligraphers, taking courses and workshops in lettering, manuscript illumination, layout, colour and pattern use, bookbinding etc. Accommodation in en-suite student rooms.
| calligraphy | England |
FreehandWriting.net
based: California, USA
Classes and workshops with Italian/American artist, Monica Dengo, in Italy, Europe and California; including contemporary calligraphy workshops, manuscript study, classical letterforms, italic handwriting, creating alphabets, classical Roman lettering.
| calligraphy | Europe | USA |
Josie Brown – Calligraphy, Heraldry & Illumination
based: Gloucestershire, UK
Tutored summer schools and winter breaks in a number of UK locations, including London, Gloucester and Marlborough. These introduce beginners to basic techniques, with more advanced skills for those with experience. Summer Schools cover areas not normally dealt with in shorter classes, such as bindings, triptychs making paints and pigments etc.
| calligraphy | England |
Art at Clevancy
based: Wiltshire, UK
Residential calligraphy and lettering courses at Cliffansty Farm Clevancy, in Wiltshire.
| calligraphy | England |
Cheerio Calligraphy Retreats
based: North Carolina, USA
A calligraphy and bookarts workshop retreat held twice a year in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina.
| calligraphy | USA |
Edward Johnston Foundation (The)
based: Sussex, UK
A registered arts charity dedicated to the promotion of public awareness of calligraphy, offering an annual weekend seminar.
| calligraphy | England |
James Skinner Calligrapher
based: Gloucestershire, UK
Workshops and short calligraphy courses in Gloucestershire and nationwide.
| calligraphy | England |
Legacy of Letters Tours
based: Washington, USA
Guided Italian vacation/study tours, looking at the culture, art and history behind Roman lettering; ideal for lettering artists, calligraphers, stone cutters, architects, type and graphic designers, and artists.
| calligraphy | Italy |
Monica Dengo Calligraphy
based: Tuscay, Italy
Calligraphy and bookbinding workshops in Arezzo, in Tuscany, near Florence.
| calligraphy | Italy |
Wak Japan
based: Kyoto, Japan
A range of courses in Kyoto including: the Japanese Tea Ceremony, Japanese paper craft and origami, calligraphy and ikebana flower arrangement.
| paper crafts | calligraphy | Japan |
WALES: First steps in calligraphy
A beginners course offering weekends learning calligraphy by the sea, with tuition at Bull Bay on Anglesey in North Wales.
This course has been designed for people new to calligraphy, or for anyone who's attempted to learn from a book and got stuck! The residential weekend inckludes 2-days of tuition and all necessary materials. En-suite accommodation with breakfast is in the Trecastell Hotel. These courses are run by Janet Smith, a professional calligrapher and lettering artist.
Calligraphy, beautiful writing
Translated literally, 'calligraphy' means 'beautiful writing', from the Greek word 'kalligraphia'. The residential courses, workshops and holidays listed here are usually run by professional lettering artists and calligraphers, who want to pass on this beautiful and elegant skill in handwriting, lettering and penmanship.
We include practitioners using many different calligraphic styles and scripts: English, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Roman etc., and who provide instruction at a recreational level for all abilities, from raw beginner to those with previous experience.
In addition to straightforward calligraphy, we are also happy to list recreational courses on illumination and gilding techniques, and even courses dealing with palaeography (or paleography), the study of ancient handwriting.
Visit us on our Facebook page!
We regularly post related articles and travel news, holiday and travel competitions on our Facebook pages. It's also where we let readers know when our offers, deals and late availability pages have been updated and when exclusive travel offers have been added.
We want to hear from you too!
Our Facebook pages are also intended for general chat about our specialist travel categories, so we'd love to hear from you about your experiences of residential calligraphy courses and workshops any tips you'd like to pass onto other readers.
Visit our Facebook pages here»
CATEGORY DEFINITION FOR TOUR OPERATORS WISHING TO BE LISTED:
The Travel-Quest calligraphy holidays section lists residential calligraphy courses, lettering workshops, holidays and vacations. For an expanded definition please see the short calligraphy article above.
PHOTO CREDITS:
Unless credited otherwise, any photos used on this page are copyright of the Travel-Quest Directory or of the companies listed. See our Photography Policy for more details (including any credits for photo collages). Any other specific credits for this page now follow.
Featured holiday photo top right: Calligraphy ©Flickr user: .angels.
© Copyright travel-quest 1999–2020
