27 cm x 21 cm

Slate

“Carving letters into stone makes you humble: I am a rookie, I will always will be a rookie.”

Artist Statement:

Valentina Casali is a multidisciplinary lettering artist from Jesi, Italy. Valentina’s skills include calligraphy, type design, sign painting and letter carving.  Thanks to the Lettering Arts Trust, she attended her first letter carving workshop with Tom Perkins in Orvieto (IT) in 2018, followed by the four-day workshop in Cambridge with both Tom Perkins and Eric Marland in 2019.

Valentina is also the co-founder of the lettering studio Sunday Büro and editor of Lettering da Jesi, a project that aims to discover and preserve old signs. In her free time, she likes to work with fibres at her side project Tiger-Mochi.