Examples of artwork involving or inspired by writing systems and languages. If you have created some writing or language-related art and would like it to appear in this gallery, please contact me.
Examples of Persian calligraphy provided by Payman Hamed from Tabriz in Iran.
These pieces of calligraphy are in English, but designed to look like ancient (seal style) Chinese characters.
This painting features letters and glyphs from many different writing systems.
See more views of the painting
More drawings and paintings by Venantius Pinto
Edoardo has created a series of wooden pieces featuring article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other texts in various languages and alphabets.
See more of these (these images are quite large so may be a bit slow to load)
La pirografia artistica di Luigi Conci
http://www.luigiconci.com
Ventiçello is a miniature ceramic village sculpted by Steven Travis, who also invented a language and script called Tapissary, which appears on the images.
a video about the Tapissary language and script
More images and stories from Ventiçello
http://www.tapissary.com
Copyright 1998- Simon Ager