Meet Mary Pavlova – Abstract Calligraphy Artist

Before I ever heard the words "calligraphy" or "lettering," I had already fallen in love with the world of lines and shapes.
As a child, I would spend hours exploring my grandmother’s drafting tools — treasures from her days as an engineer. She taught me the art of neatness, the beauty of precision, and how even ink mistakes could be gently mended.
Without realizing it, I was learning that lines could hold meaning — that every curve and stroke could express something deeper. Later, in school, my passion found a home in technical drawing. I thrived in competitions, easily built complex technical drawings, and earned recognition from my teachers.
Back then, it was about mastery — about building something solid and precise from nothing but lines.

Years later, while working as a web designer, I enrolled in an interactive design course. One project changed everything: a lettering assignment with a social message.
We hand-painted bold words onto T-shirts, wore them into subways and trams, and waited.
And people reacted — immediately, sometimes sharply, always genuinely.
That moment hit me hard. For the first time, I saw how letters could move people, spark emotion, and start conversations. It was no longer about fonts or composition. It was about impact. Expression. Voice. That project awakened something I hadn't fully understood before—a deep, urgent pull toward lettering and the raw emotional power of words.

It awakened something inside me: a deeper calling.