Calligraphy & Design
Julie Remmerde is a calligrapher who owns and operates Black Cat Studio in Vancouver, Washington. She has been in business for 25 years doing commission work for professional and government organizations, schools and colleges, local businesses, churches, hospitals and individuals in the Portland-Vancouver area. She taught calligraphy for 30 years in Oregon and Washington. Her style of writing is readable, simple and tasteful. She is a member of two professional calligraphy societies and attends national and regional workshops and conventions.
Her personal interests include organic vegetable and cut-flower gardening, walking, camping and cross-country skiing. She lives in West Vancouver in a l906 home with her husband Jim Lehman and their aging black cat.
Photo by Janet Karon
Calligraphy, the writing of both historic and contemporary alphabets with edged and pointed pens as well as brushes has fascinated me for years. A photograph of the Egyptian scribe Heti, a limestone carving, over 4,300 years old looks down on me as I write at my table. He sits cross-legged with a thick piece of papyrus across his knees, his right hand poised to hold a reed pen. I often feel a huge tie back into antiquity as I write...finding just the right style of alphabet to fit the poem, quote, award or invitation. As I blend inks or paints and illustrations with the letters, I am reminded that according to early Muslim writing, the pen was the first object created by God.
CALLIGRAPHY EXAMPLES
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Please Email BLACK CAT STUDIO
Phone: 360-693-3590
Fax: 360-750-1869
Email: remmerde@teleport.com
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