Richard studied to advanced level with the Society of Scribes and Illuminators in the UK and has worked as a professional calligrapher for private, public, and commercial clients for many years.
Latest exciting calligraphic news is that Richard has started a new body of lettercutting work on wood from his own calligraphy and is intended for exhibition, sale and also commissioning in due course.
Thank you for your interest. If you would like to contact Richard to commission calligraphic artwork, please email him in the first instance at rwcrookes@googlemail.com
It is the intention on this new website to provide some more instructional material in both downloadable and video form. Some of this was previously available on the old site and will be added here too, very shortly. Thank you for your patience if you have arrived here looking for that. There is also a possibility of some premium instructional material being made available here in due course.
Here is a slideshow of past Calligraphic work
Photoshop as a calligraphic layout tool
The Van der Graaf Canon – page layout construction
Entwined ‘twixt tig and twine – submission to the exhibition ‘Bird’s nest in a Besom’
Yggdrasil (world tree)
You can also view a selection of work on this Issu document
