THE HERALDIC ARTS WORKSHOP

Heraldic Artist's Workshop

Another view of the workshop

Congress Sponsor, John Sullivan of Braemar

Congress Sponsor Dr Walter Scott

Congress Sponsor, Scott Chalmers

Congress Sponsor The Russell Trust

Heraldic beast, the ‘Unidraglyon’ by Marco Foppoli, Heraldic Artist in the Congress Workshop


Heraldic Painting by Laurent Granier, French heraldic artist in the Congress workshop

Heraldic design painted by Neil Bromley, Heraldic Artist,
voted by delegates the winner of the Congress Barden Heraldic Arts Prize


The Gown for the Speaker of the Scottish Parliament
presented by the St Andrews Fund for Scots Heraldry

Congress Sponsor Ralph Brocklebank


The arms of the late Rt. Hon. Sir George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie
painted by Mark D Dennis. Lady Younger was a sponsor of the Congress.

The Scottish Arms of HRH The Princess Royal the Congress Patron

New Gonfannon of the University of St Andrews presented by
the St Andrews Fund for Scots Heraldry and the Congress


Detail of the University gonfannon

The main panel of the St Andrews Burgh Gonfannon presented to
the Royal Burgh by the St Andrews Fund for Scots Heraldry and the Congress


The Royal Arms of Scotland painted on vellum by Andrew Stewart Jamieson, Heraldic Artist
for the St Andrews Fund for Scots Heraldry


detail of the Crest in the above Jamieson painting

THE MOFFARTS PRIZE FOR HERALDIC ART

On the death of the Baron, the Moffarts Foundation decided the modest annual heraldic art prizes it had been sponsoring in the Benelux countries should become a fully international, biennial event. The prize, a beautiful bronze medal and € 5000, would be awarded at the International Congresses. The first competition was announced this year.

The competition theme this year was to devise heraldic ensigns for an imagined association of Nobel Laureates. Competitors were to produce an A4 coloured painting and a smaller monochrome appropriate for letterhead and were to explain their choices and the reasons for them. Competitor had to submit their entries with a portfolio of other heraldic works by May Day 2006.

Eleven submissions were made and anonymously judged by a very distinguished international jury panel. The winner was Mark Donald Dennis.

Mr Dennis said— "I used an atypical shield, nothing that could be associated with any century or country. If anything, the whole design has a faint belle époque/ art nouveau sense – fitting for the time of Alfred Nobel. The blazon is: Azure six piles reversed Or, the shield encircled with victor’s laurels entwined with an scroll bearing the words: SOCIETAS LAUREATORUM NOBELIUM.
The colours reflect the Swedish State liveries. The image was selected because the prize winners are all at the apex of their respective disciplines, the pile reversed Or. Collectively they generate light and energy to the world – and in this the reference to the sun’s rays is appropriate. The scroll and wreathe is also a small pun on the plant the ‘noble laurel’, laurus nobilis, and the Nobel Laureates. The whole achievement is non militaristic – no helms, crests or trophies of war – but dignified and complete."

Mlle. Micheline Drion, representing the Foundation made the presentation
to Mark D. Dennis at Congress Banquet.

The Moffarts Medal