Pip Hall
Pip runs a lettercarving studio on the edge of Cumbria, in the Yorkshire Dales. Here she carves commissions for inscriptions including memorials, garden features and house signs, as well as carrying out public art projects and making pieces for exhibition.
Besides lettering, she also draw illustrations for low-relief carving, linocutting and photo-etching in metal. She also draws and paints lettering for print, and for interiors, such as floors and walls. Recent large-scale commissions include the Stanza Stones in the south Pennines with poet Simon Armitage; Sheffield city centre seating schemes with poets Matt Black and Ray Hearne; the Poetry Path with poet Meg Peacocke in Cumbria; Discover Eden: wildlife bronze panel waymarking for Eden Valley walking-routes; and lettering for enamelled tiles on Carlisle's Flood Walls. With support from the Lettering Arts Trust Apprenticeship Scheme, she trained apprentice Wayne Hart, who has now set up his own studio at the Heritage & Craft Centre at Grandey's Place, Hertfordshire.
Currently Pip is training the Lettering Art’s trust’s 12th apprentice, Helen Fraser.
