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‘The Bees’ print for Christmas

For the launch of Carol Ann Duffy’s new collection ‘The Bees’ (Picador), Stephen has made a colour print of his artwork which appears in black & white in the book.

Song of Solomon print

A new work from Stephen Raw printed at The Print Studio, Cambridge.
(Details on Song of Solomon page.)

New murals unveiled

A 7 meter-long wall for a Stockport College and a 5 meter-high mural for Leeds.

‘Rings’ print of Laureate’s poem

How to buy one of the prints.
Wedding present
Civil partnership present

Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry

Judges Gillian Clarke, Stephen Raw and Jeanette Winterson have awarded the 2010 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry to Kaite O’Reilly

Medal for British Academy

President’s medal unveiled at Ceremony

Lichfield Festival Banner for summer 2011

The Lichfield Festival

Royal Ballet stone for Westminster Abbey

Stephen’s Royal Ballet memorial now in Westminster Abbey

British Library buys Tolkien maps

Stephen’s maps for ‘The Lord of the Rings’ now in their world-renowned collection.

Burns Banner unveiled in Edinburgh

The ‘BurnsBanner’ and Homecoming Scotland

The ‘Manchester Peace Park’

Manchester Aid to Kosova anniversary

The Manchester Carols prints

Manchester Carols prints signed by Poet Laureate for sale.

This website shows the diverse range of work by Stephen Raw, an artist whose artwork is concerned with ‘language made visible’. Use the catalogue to see some of his recent paintings. Pieces such as his work for St Ann’s Hospice are commissions while others, such as ‘Book of Remembrance’ and ‘Sarcophagus/Altar’, are personal.

Stephen’s work ranges from commercial lettering for publishers and designers under his company name ‘Letterforms’, through to lettering in all sorts of media for a wide-ranging list of clients. Added to this is his experimental work, which has been exhibited widely, in which Stephen explores the abstraction of the imagery of letterforms themselves. Recognising this is a growing band of collectors who have been buying his work.

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Visit Letterforms, a complete sub-site containing more that 350 examples of Stephen‘s lettering.

Raw’s unique achievement is making unexpected, compelling harmonies between the thing said and the saying.

Michael Schmidt FRSL
  • Memory Language Poster
  • The Herb Garden

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Click on the screen to see an 8 minute DVD of some of the work of Stephen Raw. Made by Ocicat Productions and directed by Paul Fabricius. stephen and sarcophagus