Toby Newton Journeyman

 This piece was for a local couple who had recently built a beautiful house and they wanted the husbands initials and the year of completion stated to celebrate the final touches to their new home. They managed to salvage some purbeck stone that they had recovered from the existing house that they knocked down. This was a wonderful idea as it really gives thanks to the existing property that served them so very well for years. The client asked for a medieval lettering but after showing her some examples she decided that versal was what she had in her mind. I did a number of designs but settled on the composition in the pictures below. The initials along the middle, using the extra space by tuning the stone 45° and the date split from the top to the bottom. I felt this was nicely balanced and it kept the space clean. By splitting the date into two it filled the space whilst in a sense giving the viewer something unformal to view. The stone was lovely to carve although very uneven and pi

Hello, Making a post to see if this works! I'm very surprised at how easy this was to set up (famous last words). I look forward to posting on here weekly and using this blog as a kind of diary to note down my thoughts and feelings on topics associated with my work. Also to post pictures to create a record of my time as a journeyman.  A big THANK YOU to the Lettering Arts Trust for the help and support that I have received from them! God bless Toby