Sign Writing with By Umberto

About Robert Walker AKA By Umberto

Rob is an artist, artisan & educator based in Marsden, UK who has been coming to Good Life Society Events to host sign writing workshops for years. 

Passionate about typography, craft, detail and keeping heritage skills alive, he started out as a sign writer and mural painter - what was once known as a ‘decorator’.

Trained in a multitude of craft techniques, Rob's speciality is in the art of Verre Églomisé, which involves painstakingly painting a design and applying gold leaf onto the rear face of glass, once a commonly-used technique for signage, now an at-risk heritage skill.

Now Robert brings all of his experience and obsession together to create high-end pieces from the byUMBERTO studio, for exteriors, interiors, and collectors, and is increasingly exploring the creation of contemporary art pieces using traditional sign-writing methods.

About the day

Hour 1: Teaching the techniques of how to draw the above.

Hour 2: Participants draw their word to practice their new found knowledge.

Break for lunch: From the award-winning Hawarden Estate Farm Shop.

Hour 3: Rob will give each guest a pre- drawn convex bevel word that is related to The Good Life Society. You will then transfer the word to the board.

Hour 4: Guests paint their bevel lettering with Rob on hand to assist brush control.

Finish - group photo with your finished boards!