Featured Artists

Meet our latest Artist of the Month...Maki Shimano, a Modern Calligrapher from Japan! Growing up around her father's bookbinding and printing career, Maki was surrounded by letters, type and papers! This inspired her to begin writing and whilst she took a small break before starting college, her love for writing and calligraphy continued to inspire her throughout her career! Read on to find out more about Maki... ...

Meet our latest Artist of the Month...Geraldine Salinas, aka escribe_crea. Geralinde is lettering artist from Bolivia! Inspired by colours as a child, she loved how she could use this with letters, thus her love for lettering began! Read on to find out more about Geraldine... ...

Meet our latest Artist of the Month...Christine Nicholls, aka inkpotandpen. Chrissie is an artist-illustrator, printmaker, lettering artist and sketchbook enthusiast! After training in Fineart in the 80s Chrissie's love for letterforms was reignited! Read on to find out more about Chrissie... ...

Meet our first Artist of the Month for 2021...Lucy Davies, aka Little Old Goose. Lucy is a freelance calligrapher from Hampshire, UK who has been practicing calligraphy since 2014. After studying Art & Design at college, Lucy only started actively practicing when she discovered brush markers and she was hooked! Read on to find out more about Lucy... ...

Meet our final Artist of the Month for 2020...Hideya Moto. Hideya is a freelance calligrapher from Japan who has been actively practicing calligraphy since 2015. Initially inspired by Japanese calligraphy during elementary school, he took a break but his love for letters was resurrected! We had an exclusive chat with him to find out all about his creative journey. Read more... ...

We asked our Artist of the Month Gabriela Gomez to create a new step-by-step watercolour and lettering tutorial for you all and she did not disappoint! She has put together this fun tutorial which uses two different artistic mediums, calligraphy and watercolour blending. Follow her steps below and create your very own masterpiece! Choose your own colours of choice and you can use this technique for creating any wording to your piece of artwork. We went with 'Love' because we there is never too much to go around! So, what are you waiting for? Get your brush pens ready and lets go! ...

Manuscript are proud to announce it's latest Artist of the Month - Gabriela Gomez! A Planner by day, Gabriela was introduced to calligraphy one year ago but fell in love with art from a young age. We spoke to her to find out all about her creative journey so far, read more below... 

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Looking for an exciting calligraphy step-by-step project? Our October Artist of the Month Abhay Singh has put together this fantastic Calligraphy project for you to follow with Manuscript product! This intermediate tutorial is perfect for those who want to challenge their calligraphyt skills!  

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Manuscript are proud to announce it's latest Artist of the Month - Abhay Singh! A Food Engineer by day, Abhay was introduced to calligraphy three years ago and fell in love with the artform quickly. We spoke to him to find out all about his creative journey so far, read more below... 

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Manuscript are proud to announce it's latest Artist of the Month - Natascha Safarik! With a keen interest in words and language and inspired by lettering artist, Natascha started her calligraphy journey. As the author of the first German language pointed pen calligraphy book, we spoke to Natascha to find out all about her creative journey. 

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