Chain Letter: Vanessa Power

‘Chain Letter’ invites a sign painter or lettering artist to share a piece of lettering that has influenced or inspired them, before passing the baton to someone else, in a never-ending chain.In the last one, Meghan McDermott nominated Vanessa Power. Vanessa is an Irish sign painter, muralist, and mosaic and stained glass artist.What have you selected?When I first started researching signwriting, I came across the pilllpat (agence eureka) Flickr account. She had uploaded scans from a couple of French signwriting books: Lettres à l'usage du peintre (Letters for the Use of the Painter, c.1900) and Album du peintre en bâtiment (Building Painter’s Album, 1892), created by the Parisian sign painter Nicolas Glaise. They were originally produced as practical reference books for sign painters.‘Lettres Monstre’ from Album du peintre en batîment by Nicolas Glaise. Original image: patricia m.How did they inspire you?I remember falling in love with the shading effects, especially the cast…