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The British Library buys Tolkien maps

Stephen’s maps now in their collection.

Burns artwork for Edinburgh

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Banner for Kosovan Peace Park

Manchester Aid to Kosova anniversary

British Book Production 2008 Awards

Penguins win Series Identity

Carol Ann Duffy poetry cast in bronze!

A new release from the British Art Medal Society

This website shows the diverse range of work by Stephen Raw, a textural 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. In his experimental work which he has exhibited widely, Stephen explores the gestural 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
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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