Ralph Beyer
Works available
Zen Poem by Dogen
2001
Purbeck Marble
62 × 52 × 2.5 cm / 24 1/2 × 20 1/2 × 1 ins
Biography
(1921-2008)
A pupil of Eric Gill (1937–38) since the mid-1950s, Ralph Beyer worked as an architectural letterer. Major commissions included all lettering in Coventry Cathedral: the large wall texts Tablets of the Word in stone, the giant inscription cut in bronze and inlaid in the marble floor and also a carved font.
Ralph worked in five English Cathedrals, in Churches and public buildings and Universities as well as private gardens and parks. He worked in stone, concrete, wood and metal and made sculpture for outside spaces with and without lettering. Ralph Beyer taught lettering in various colleges and for sixteen years at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at Reading University. Ralph Beyer died in March 2008.
His work is in the V&A Museum, Holburne Museum, Bath and the Royal College of Art as well as a Tagarae Inscription in Dartington Hall and other inscriptions in private collections.