Tag: Nan Shepherd
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The Living Mountain
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Read More →: The Living MountainSpecial Edition A beautifully illustrated, handwritten edition of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain, a text that blazed the trail for nature writing, by award-winning calligrapher and painter Susie Leiper. The original bindings and their custom made clamshell boxes are on show at The Crafts Council gallery in Londonuntil the 13th of April 2924 as part…
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One never quite knows the mountain …
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Read More →: One never quite knows the mountain …Susie’s exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh is inspired by Nan Shepherd’s seminal work The Living Mountain. Quite serendipitously Nan and Susie appear together on the new RBS fiver: Nan is the face of the note and it is Susie’s calligraphy on the reverse. Works on show include small tablets with silverpoint lettering…
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Susie Leiper at the RSA Open Exhibition
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Read More →: Susie Leiper at the RSA Open ExhibitionSusie Leiper’s book The granites and schists Of my dark and stubborn country is on show, laid open beside its box, at the RSA Open Exhibition in the National Gallery Academy Building, The Mound, Edinburgh, until 30 August. http://www.royalscottishacademy.org