Framestore, London, 14 January 2025

18 Jan 2025

In November, my début booking for Cosy Life Drawing London at Framestore had been a duo session with Esther. Fast forward two months, this was now my first solo session. I arrived comfortably early as the venue’s pre-visit sign-in email stated 18:00 under ‘When’. It should have been 19:00 but, no problem, I like to be in good time.

The set-up was exactly the same as before: the space, availability of props, the pose lengths, the automated timing system, music, a glass of wine at the interval. All good. Small easels for the artists seemed to be new. And, of course, people change. Artists can vary from session to session; and I no longer had Esther.

I’d been a bit under the weather going into this evening, but once we were under way my energy lifted and I felt on pretty good form. Even so, there was a poignancy about being solo after modelling here beautifully as a couple just weeks ago. I wasn’t aware of projecting sadness, yet… these are skilled artists, they saw it in the longer poses.