An artist based in United States - Paris

Eleanor Winters

Eleanor took her first calligrapy class at the YMCA in New York City in 1970 while completing her Masters degree at NYU. Prior to that she studied fine arts at Brooklyn College and New York University. Since then, she has influenced generations of calligraphers, having been active in the international calligraphy movement for nearly 40 years.

A commercial as well as a fine-art calligrapher, she is the author of five calligraphy instructional books: Calligraphy in Ten Easy Lessons (Dover Publications, 1984), Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy (Dover Publications, 1989), Calligraphy for Kids (Sterling Publishing, 2004), Calligraphy 1-2-3! (Sterling Publishing, 2006) and Italic and Copperplate Calligraphy (Dover, 2011). “Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy” has also been published in Chinese and Spanish language editions. A new book, “Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy Exercise Book”, will be published in Chinese later in 2020 by Guangxi Fine Art Publishing.

She served as Director of the Calligraphy Workshop in New York for 25 years, taught as a Professor of Art at Long Island University from 1990-2005, and sits on the faculty of the New York Society of Scribes Calligraphy School.

Eleanor divides her time between New York and Paris. She has taught workshops in the US and Europe and has visited Asia as a calligraphy instructor numerous times, conducting workshops in Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Taiwan, Manila, Bangkok and Macau, since 2014.

As a fine-art calligrapher, Eleanor has exhibited her work in museums and galleries in the US and Europe. An exhibition of 75 paintings from her Holocaust Remembrance calligraphy project was hosted by the Holocaust Museum in Detroit in 2016, as well as a solo exhibition in Paris in 2019.

In 2019, she published a ‘Paris / Auschwitz: Remembering the Children — A la Mémoire des Enfants Déportés’ – a moving collection of over 40 pieces of calligraphic art inspired by and dedicated to the memory of the children who perished in the Nazi death camps. "We must never forget" is the thread that runs through this compilation of art that names specific children and honours their brief existence.

Eleanor shares: “My decision to focus on a historical/political/emotional series of paintings has been life-changing, in terms of personal and emotional involvement in the work as well as my experiences meeting and working with people in Europe and the US involved in Holocaust Remembrance.”

Selections of her work can be seen on www.alamemoireparis.com.