Sondra Venable

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Saint Crispin's Day

2015

For this quotation, from Shakespeare's Henry V (Act IV, scene iii), I have selected an English blackletter script and a heraldic border, both adapted from a 14th-century manuscript. The script is contemporary with the life of Henry V, while the alternating coats of arms of England and France are the perfect counterpoint for Henry's attempt to add the French throne to the English. The corner medallions contain Shakespeare's coat of arms, and my own as a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

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Ink and gouache on acid-free paper
11.7" x 16.5" (A3)
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Image Description: Saint Crispin's Day / Main Image

Artist + Sondra Venable

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Calligraphy is, for me, the art form that best engages both sides of my dual identity, scholar/writer and visual artist. Calligraphic work marries words and images to convey a message that neither could alone. My use of letter-forms and decorative elements from medieval manuscripts allows me to combine scholarly rigor with artistic imagination and expression. My work is heavily influenced by many years of active participation in the Society for Creative Anachronism, where I found both an outlet for my developing skills and a community of like-minded scholar-artists. Today, my work is nurtured by New Orleans’ respect for a tradition in hand-made objects, and by the love of bright colors that infuses not only its architecture, but its language and storytelling as well.

Sondra Venable is a New Orleans artist living and working in the Uptown neighborhood.

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