Waterloo Action Centre, London, 22 February 2025 – part 1

2 Mar 2025

This double session at Waterloo Action Centre with London Drawing was an oasis of life modelling. Prior to this I’d been away travelling for over three weeks, and after I had to cancel all the next week’s bookings for personal reasons. This one day though was a joy. Back-to-back two-hour slots, starting with shorter poses.

There’s a lot of room to fill at Waterloo Action Centre, but filled it was. Every available space was taken by artists arranged in a double horseshoe, with the inner horseshoe sitting and the outer standing at easels. My own station was a short runway of carpet with heaters either side and a couple of seating options for later poses.

Maybe because it had been so long since I’d last modelled, I really got into this work. Both sessions were led energetically and insightfully by Andrea Voisey. I could pass the time quite happily just listening to Andrea’s artistic advice and guidance. Our two hours raced by, as did the half-hour break that followed, taking us to part 2…