Artists & Illustrators

Back to Life

In common with many other people, I have spent the last year missing the experience of life drawing. For the past 20 years or so my weekly routine has involved going to life classes. It is a practice that generates its own momentum – the more deeply I go into it, the more it seems to offer, and the more possibilities and challenges come to the fore.

After a year of not working directly from life and with a view to returning to life classes as we (potentially) emerge from lockdown restrictions, for the first time in as long as I can remember I am approaching

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