Granville Park Centre, London, 26 March 2025

I’d modelled in person for Adult Learning Lewisham before, but only at the Brockley Rise Adult Education Centre, never at their Granville Park Centre. And I had worked with tutor Caroline Underwood before, but only online, never in person. The ‘nevers’ were erased by this booking.

What a lovely session it was too, for a group of employees from a firm of architects in the crisp yet gently warming light of early afternoon sunshine. The focus of study was ‘hands’, albeit with varied and expressive gestures attached to a nude model. We got underway with half-a-dozen quick warm-ups before lengthening the poses.

It had only been nine days since my last life modelling work. During that short time I’d had the funeral of one parent, then got away from it all in Bulgaria for four nights, only to be called within an hour of getting home by a paramedic attending the other parent. So it goes. Amid relentlessly intense real life, occasions like this are to be cherished.

Pose minutes, 1pm-3pm

Part 1 : 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 10, 10, 20, 30.

Artworks

With apologies to artists I’m unable to credit.