This Winter Solstice wreath was hand drawn using dip pens by Kitty Bradshaw. When not being creative in her practice of Oriental Medicine, Kitty gives sway to her lifelong love of calligraphy. Of late, she has been practicing ‘Italian Roundhand.’
About Italian Roundhand: From the Pennavolans:
“The story starts at the end of the Middle Ages in the Italian peninsula, when the Florentine intelligentsia started the Renaissance movement. Their aim was to put Man at the center of preoccupations: to know God’s creation better, they thought that they needed to know more about Man himself. Humanists turned their backs on what they called the “dark Middle Ages” and dove into the works of classical authors in order to revive the cultural legacy and moral philosophy of classical antiquity. They wanted modern people to be free and civilized, literate and curious… Naturally, they needed an appropriate, elegant, fast and legible new writing style to spread their new ideas.”
