Fortress of Enchantment: Liesbet Boudens' Effect- Five Pieces in Kalligraphia 13

Anna Fong Lum "Love Generously"

Nowadays, you can look at calligraphy pieces tinged with watercolors and other media interpersed with calligraphy scripts, you can’t really tell immediately the name of the calligrapher.

Only a few calligraphers can say that they’ve a signature look like Alan Blackman’s Galahad; Liesbet Boudens has a signature look with her letterwork that is distinctly hers alone.

Liesbet Boudens comes from a talented family of artists in Brugge, Belgium. Liesbet’s father Jef was a celebrated calligrapher in his time. Her mother Dymphna is an art teacher. Sister Joke is a calligrapher. Pieter letters on stone; Jeroen letters in stained iron ,metal and stone to make sculptures; Kristoffel letters in stone and pebbles; and Liesbet creates her letters on paper, walls and canvas.

Liesbet Boudens' effect cannot be ignored. Five pieces in the current Exhibition of Kalligraphia 13 sprung out her workshop. She taught the class how to make letters that will give the students their own look and not anybody else’s. Liesbet is an art teacher in Belgium, France and

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Liesbet Boudens wins easily as the workshop teacher who influenced five lettering artists to exhibit their work done in her class.

In the Kalligraphia 13 catalogue: :

Sarah Loesch Frank –“Dragonfly” – Sarah says, “This piece was inspired by last year’s Liesbet Boudens talk and class.”

Anna Fong Lum : “Love Generously”, Anna states, “Classwork in Liesbet Boudens’ workshop, August 2011 with the Sea Scribes Marina, CA.”

Georgianna Greenwood “Improvise”, Georgianna writes, “Most of the work on this piece was done during an enlightening weekend workshop in 2011 with Liesbet Boudens from Belgium in 2011.

Elizabeth Nisperos, “October is In Love With the Impossible” Elizabeth writes,”At the Liesbet Boudens workshop. I deformed the roman capital letters to draw playful letters to form the 2010 San Francisco Giants World Series Championship logo”

Ruth Korch “Hyacinths for the Soul” from Persian poet , 13^th Century “If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft/And from slenderstore/Two loaves to thee alone are left/Sell one and with the dole/Buy hyacinths to feed the soul.”

Ruth Korch "Hyacinths for the Soul"

Though Ruth didn’t say the piece was created at Liesbet Boudens’ workshop, the photos taken during Boudens class showed it was done at Boudens’ workshop.