Lettering & Commemorative Arts

The Lettering and Commemorative Arts Trust (LCAT) is encouraging Britain’s long tradition of lettercarving to flourish through our Apprenticeship Scheme, Lettercarving Workshops, The Art & Memory Collection, and various illustrated publications. We have also helped and advised over three thousand five hundred people across the British Isles and also overseas, with the commissioning of commemorative works and well designed, unique memorials for churchyard, cemetery, private garden or public space. Please see our commissioning site www.memorialsbyartists.co.uk

Please visit the Lettering Arts Centre at Snape Maltings to enjoy our inaugural exhibition Words Set Free. The exhibition showcases work of members of Letter Exchange, a body of professional lettering artists. The exhibition runs from 24th March until 15th June, and we are open Friday to Monday, 11am ’til 4pm.

LETTER DESIGN and LETTERCARVING WORKSHOPS: Please contact the Trust if you would like to take part in our Lettercarving workshops in East Sussex, Cambridge, Fife, Cumbria or Kent. There are still places available on many of the workshops.

CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOPS with Gaynor Goffe: 3 one-day workshops, Calligraphy workshops for beginners and beyond; learning; improving; experimenting with a script suited to previous experience. If you would like to book a place on one or more of the calligraphy workshops, please let me know as soon as possible. Class size will be limited to 8 people, so you will benefit from individual tuition from Gaynor. For those who attend more than 1 workshop, skills will be built upon on subsequent workshops. Beginners are welcome to all classes.  Please contact the Trust for more info, or see our News page.