Welcome!

Calligraphic Works is the Studio and Gallery of Deirdre Hassed, based in Melbourne, Australia.

Drawing on her extensive training in both traditional and contemporary calligraphic techniques, Deirdre’s art brings inspiring texts to life with creative lettering, rich colours and lustrous gold leaf illuminations, examples of which can be seen on the Gallery page.

Her services include:

• creative rendering of texts
• corporate commissions
• hand-designed invitations and awards
• limited edition prints
• teaching and workshops

More details about these services can be found on the Commissions page, and more about Deirdre and her work on the About page.

Recent Work

Recent work has included original artworks and a book!

Weaving Words & Hildegard — 2021

Peace — 2020

Illuminating Wisdom — Book

March 2017 saw the launch of Deirdre’s book Illuminating Wisdom: Words of wisdom, works of art, with an accompanying exhibition of artwork from the book.