Borghild Telnes

Calligraphy artist from Seljord, Norway. Participant of the project, dedicated to the 150th birth anniversary of a great Georgian poet and writer Vazha Pshavela (2011).

Borghild Telnes (b. 1961) is a Norwegian calligrapher who set up her own workshop in 1998 and now works full-time.

She has studied art history at the University of Oslo, has attended Einar Granum’s School of Drawing and Painting in Oslo, and has taken an extensive correspondence course in calligraphy at the Roehampton Institute in London.

She has also attended a series of workshops and courses with such world-famous calligraphers as Jean Lacher, Ewan Clayton, Christopher Haanes, Margaret Daubney, Denis Brown, Thomas Ingmire and Ann Heckle.

She often combines calligraphy with various printing techniques, illustration and ornamentation, covering a range of different calligraphic styles.

During the last few years she has particularly been concentrating on the works of two Norwegian poets, Olav H. Hauge and Hans Børli, and has participated at several exhibitions across the country and abroad.

In 2010 she took part in The International Exhibition of Calligraphy in Novgorod in Russia and in spring 2011 she exhibited calligraphic works in Fukuyama Museum of Modern Art in Japan.

Borghild Telnes is a member of the Norwegian calligraphic associations SKRIFT and Kalligrafisk Klubb, and of the British-based Calligraphy and Lettering Art Society (CLAS).

 

Calligraphy work by Borghild Telnes:

           

Size: 210/420 mm.

Materials: paper, vellum, sumi ink, gouache and tranfer gold on gesso.

The technic is some sort of embroidery or cutting and stitching together.

The vellum piece in the middle is translucent and gives light through if it is held against a window or other light.

 

"How beautiful is the sun
 When it sends its rays
 in the morning on the hill!
 May the worker’s pure work
 Not be destroyed."

 

Fragment from Vazha-Pshavela’s verse.

Translated from Georgian by Yolanda Marchev.