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Inscapes of Beauty from ‘Their Colours and their Forms’ exhibition

Bringing together practices from both China and Europe (East and West), Ling’s research through calligraphy investigates and tacit and gestural approaches from these different cultures, in an intuitive manner. For this exhibition Ling’s work explores the connections between the poetry of William Wordsworth and contemporary poet, John Strachan, demonstrating how poetry from different periods of history can be integrated through Ling’s own integrated calligraphic practice. Ling’s body of work, ‘Inscapes of Beauty’, combines Chinese ink and paper with the distinctive gestural process, and is the first time that the manuscripts from the archive of the Wordsworth Trust at Dove Cottage have been used in contemporary calligraphic practice. The work was exhibited as part of ‘Their Colours and Their Forms’ exhibition at The Wordsworth Museum, Cumbria. It was also included in the book of the same name published by Art Editions North and The Wordsworth Trust, 2013 (ISBN: 9781906832063) and distributed by Cornerhouse Publications.