CIPHER
" Cipher is a collaboration with my friend and master calligrapher Georgia Angelopolous. Working spontaneously and through specific texts we explored integrating calligraphy and fine art techniques into a new collaborative expression."
Miles Lowry
Text: Liam Mac Uistin Painting/gilding: Miles Lowry Lettering: Georgia Angelopoulos 34 x 45 inches - Wooden panel. Oil paints, metals, acrylic gouache
Text: Verses 1 and 4 from the poem, ‘somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond’ by e e cummings Painting: Miles Lowry - Lettering: Georgia Angelopoulos -Wooden panel, acrylic and mineral pigments. 18 x 32 inches
Text: Jean Genet, ‘The Thief’s Journal’ Painting: Miles Lowry - Lettering: Georgia Angelopoulos -Arches watercolour paper, gouache, walnut ink, acrylic ink, gesso sottile, 22 carat Moon gold, gum Ammoniac. 23 x 30 inches
Text and Painting: Miles Lowry Calligraphy: Georgia Angelopoulos -Arches watercolour paper, acrylic paint, sumi ink, gesso sottile, palladium. 23 x 30 inches
Text: Sappho, fragment, ca. 600 BC Cast and painted cotton fibre: Miles Lowry Lettering: Georgia Angelopoulos -Acrylic and mineral pigments, acrylic gouache, palladium
Text: Sei Shonagan, ‘The Pillow Book’ , 11th c AD Painting: Miles Lowry - Lettering: Georgia Angelopoulos -Arches watercolour paper, Japanese kakishibu (fermented persimmon juice), acrylic and mineral pigments, gouache, Gesso sottile, Gum Ammoniac, 23 carat Red Gold, Sumi ink. 23 x 30 inches
Text: Emily Carr, ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ Painting: Miles Lowry Lettering: Georgia Angelopoulos -Wooden panel, acrylic and mineral pigments. 18 x 32 inches
Lifesize - Cast and painted cotton - Miles Lowry Calligraphy in Greek – Georgia Angelopolous A fragment from The Naked Song, Kostas Palamas “ Amber of the flesh, draw my arms like a magnet…” 2011