Emily Hoffnung

It never ceases to amaze me how the meaning of a piece of poetry or a quotation can be magnified when drawn in beautiful letters, set out in an interesting and sensitive way and carved into a piece of stone. In the same way a person’s name can take on a resonance when cut into this extraordinary and varied, age old material.

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Emily worked as a sculptor for twenty years, involved in figurative work and bronze casting having studied sculpture at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts from 1976–80. Her fascination for lettering led her, in 2000, to attend City and Guilds Art School specifically to learn lettering and letter carving. She studied under James Salisbury and then continued her training by working as an apprentice to Martin Cook. She then worked as an assistant at Richard Kindersley for five years before setting up her own letter carving workshop in 2007. Emily has completed numerous architectural and memorial commissions, and also carves her own inscriptions.

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