Tom Perkins
Tom trained in calligraphy at Reigate School of Art & Design in the mid-70s, followed by a year as letter carving assistant to Richard Kindersley at his Kennington studio. In 1982, after letter carving in London for several years, he set up his own workshop in Sutton, Cambridgeshire. A wide range of work includes public art commissions, large-scale signs for buildings, memorials, plaques, book jacket and logo design. Recent commissions include lettering for the Queen’s Gallery and a metal lettering frieze for St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. He taught lettering and letter carving at Roehampton Institute for 15 years until 1997 and teaches short courses at West Dean College and for The Memorial Arts Charity, and in the USA and Japan. He is a Fellow of the Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society, Temenos Academy, The Royal Society of Arts and the Society of Designer Craftsmen. The Crowood Press published ‘The Art of Letter Carving in Stone’ in 2007.