Garrett Centre, London, 17 October 2025

31 Oct 2025

Life drawing sessions are offered from Monday to Friday by Adrian Dutton’s groups at various venues each week. I’ve worked with Adrian for years and had modelled for all his current groups within the past year, some more than others, with the exception of his Friday long-pose group at the Garrett Centre in Bethnal Green.

Not only had I not posed for the Friday group in the past year, you’d have to go as far back as 22 July 2022 to find my last visit. And you’d have to go back even farther, all the way to 15 December 2016 for my last duo session at any of Adrian’s groups; due to an unplanned double-booking, however, that’s what this became.

It was a ‘duo’ session only insofar as two models occupied the same pose space. No interaction. I told fellow model Sandra I was happy to stand so maybe she would like to sit, thereby making different levels and shapes within the overall tableau. This was agreed and after three 5-minute warm-ups that’s how we proceeded.

For some reason my left arm decided to go numb for the last half-hour of the first half yet was perfectly fine throughout the second half in the same pose. All was well apart from that. Nice to have a pretty full turnout of artists, including several familiar friendly faces. And it was nice, after a three-year wait, to have that Friday feeling again.