Teaching and Surface Design
Lettering, letter design and mark-making remained central to my work from 1984-2008. I taught calligraphy (and card-making and paper making), for about 20 years and was very involved in the Calligraphic Arts Guild of Toronto as well as Cyberscribes, an international online community, where I also taught calligraphy. Online teaching was very different then! It included snail mail submissions and chat room critiques.
In 2000 I teamed up with the talented and delightful Linda Prussick. We worked and exhibited together as BoothPrussick Design for 5 years and had many adventures as Surface Designers. We created pattern for reproduction and exhibited at Surtex in New York City each year. Lettering, mark-making and whimsical/humourous illustration (all Linda) were all part of our body of work. I was approached by Quarto Publishing, to write my first book “Scrapbooker’s Alphabets”, in 2004. It was an incredibly exciting but challenging time. However, my mother became ill and it became evident that my dear aunt had Alzheimer’s and I just couldn’t keep all the balls in the air. BoothPrussick Design was dissolved; I do miss those days!
Just a few samples of posters, pattern and tessellations I created for BoothPrussick:
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