Drawing Humans Catalogue

Alexander English

Co-founder of Living Art drawing group, founder of Drawing Humans.

Curating at XYZ Gallery, regularly organising creative and community events and workshops.

With a diverse art practice spanning drawing and painting, photography, installation and performance.

“Drawing has always been there as far back as I can remember. An invaluable tool that tells you where to go next if you care to listen.”

Mark Woods

My paintings and drawings are representational in that I attempt to capture a sense of place and a feel for the subject matter in front of me. I work quickly, I don’t like to get hung up on tiny details, but add just enough to make the viewer aware that the detail exists.Recently I rekindled my love of life drawing, and try to capture the human form. Again I work quickly, using charcoal, coloured pencil, pastels and often a putty rubber eraser as a mark making drawing tool. I’ve try to capture the essence of the stillness of that moment.

Philip Bartle

Am very interested in figurative and portrait drawing, paint landscapes including cityscape in watercolour acrylic and oil. Painting the twilight or night in the city has been a long term preoccupation I also take photographs on a variety of cameras including 5×4 inch film

Andrew Maginley

Andrew Maginley born and raised in New York City is a classical musician and artist. He has lived in Germany and now in the U.K. Following degrees in art and music, Andrew’s focus as an artist is on the human figure and portraiture.

Andrew has continued to develop his art through frequent trips to Rome and Florence, and studied oil painting and drawing with American artist Shane Wolf in Paris. His inspiration of the human form is through the styles and techniques renaissance artists.

Andrew was introduced to the Hesketh Hubbard Art Society by his mentor Austrian artist Clarissa James.

Rosa Osborne

Rosa Studied a Three-Dimensional Design and Sculpture degree at Hornsey College of Art. Mainly figurative, working in a variety of media, including lino cuts, life drawing, monoprints, screenprints and stenciled prints. She has exhibited widely, including recently at the Mall Galleries SW1, the Katherine House Gallery Marlborough, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery London W5, and the RWA Bristol.

Connie Lim

My work blends my background in fashion illustration with my passion for life drawing. I focus on capturing the human form in various poses, emotions, and personalities, often drawing people in different clothes to reflect their personal identity and backgrounds. I often think of lifedrawing sessions as my playground to explore a variety of medium. I mix everything from markers, pastels, to paints as each model inspires me to mix and match. I love to express not only the figure itself but also the energy, style, and individuality that make each person their own unique being.

Fanni Csepeli

Fanni is a British-Hungarian artist and architect whose work is strongly inspired by the complexity of human anatomy. She favors ink for its raw permanence, appreciating how it leaves no room for correction. Fanni enjoys experimenting with colour, using it to capture and convey the emotions she experiences while capturing life models.

Jason Church

My work is an attempt to manipulate the ‘objective’ perception of the figure to capture ‘pre-objective’ or ‘pure’ sensations of being. This for me, is what makes the figure such a powerful subject in art.

If I can free myself from objective certainties like memory, association and judgement I will move closer to capturing these pure sensations.

“One wants a thing to be as factual as possible and at the same time as deeply suggestive—or deeply unlocking of areas of sensation—other than simple illustration of the object that you set out to do.”

Francis Bacon

Sylvietta

Sylvietta is an Italian artist based in East London, with a Fine Art degree from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Specializing in drawings, paintings, and collages, her work explores the human form and urban landscapes. Drawing inspiration from observation and photography, she creates narrative montages that celebrate the diversity of the human figure with a playful, storytelling approach.

Martin Howarth

Martin has been life drawing and painting for almost three decades in a variety of settings. He has worked in various media, but has recently focused on watercolour. He is also a screen-printer and you can see influences of this in his painting style. He claims that watercolour adds an extra layer of challenge, especially for short poses when the colours bleed and disrupt tonal changes. But the subtlety of the colours and the blooms that appear when the paint dries, bring the image to life and gives it a touch of magic.

Lydia Thornley

Lydia Thornley combines her drawing, design knowledge, spirit of enquiry and speaking in creative work with clients, with collaborators and on her own projects. Her sketching is commissioned for live events work, investigative drawing for research and scoping, sketch illustration and sketch engagement. Her own drawing projects are annotated sketch explorations of nature, ideas and experiences. Lydia goes to life drawing as a ballet dancer would attend class, to maintain and stretch her skills.

Paul Shinn

Paul has been regularly attending a variety of life drawing classes across London for nearly 8 years now. Paul finds life drawing a very mindful experience, being completely focused on capturing the essence of the model and their pose within the time given. Paul has previously worked as an illustrator and cartoonist and likes using marker pens and colours in his drawings.

Michael Bredin

Michael is an artist based in London, with plenty of passion, appetite for discoveries, and journeys into that elusive blend of draftsmanship and character (art?)

Jack Gavin

Jack Gavin is an artist based in North London focusing predominantly on portraiture and figurative work. He has exhibited at Artsdepot and the Candid Arts Trust and featured in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2024. Jack sketches with pastels in a loose style with a focus on strong blocks of colour. His work often explores the idea of vulnerability.

Robert Waddingham

Robert took up drawing during the covid-19 pandemic. Emerging from lockdown, he found life drawing combined technical skills, the need to capture the emotion of the pose, and the social aspect of working with people in the life room. His drawings take an analytical approach describing the anatomical and tonal structure of the body using architectural , definitive lines. His aim at the moment is to draw loosely, and to accept that while that can increase the failure rate it raises the chance of finding something new through the element of chance it brings to the process.

David Ford

David Ford is a writer and artist. He has been attending life drawing classes in London for the past twenty years.

Charles Ellis

Charles Ellis’ preferred medium when drawing the figure is charcoal and graphite employing the large scale of A1 paper. He finds that larger drawings have a more physical presence so producing a greater impact on the viewer.

He co-founded the Crouch End life-drawing group, the Dashwood Art Society, over thirty years ago and ever since has enjoyed the experience of capturing the human form with paper and charcoal with fellow artists/friends.

“I find drawing the human form is an intense and immersive experience, a great puzzle-solving exercise, and if you can produce a good drawing then that’s a bonus.”

Pamela Sinclair

Pamela’s range of subjects to draw and paint, being inspired by land and seascapes and especially the human figure. She uses a variety of mediums, but particularly likes pastel for its forgiving nature .

Peter Wane

Because of COVID many Life Models found a lifeline via zoom sessions. Musing from the Creative Comfort of their homes or directly into the Artists Studio Space. Saving on travel time / no elbowing for best viewing position 🙂 and with easy access to ones art materials!

I have chosen to submit a few life Studies from the above period.Specifically ones that carry a narrative. Inspired by that new and singular relationship as always.

“with thanks to the subjects who make Life Drawing so wonderful”

Anita Ives

Anita is a figurative artist specialising in collage and mixed media work. Anita draws as an antidote to office life in the City which she began as a book keeper. Her connection to this other life is expressed in her use of vintage ledgers which she sources from around the world. The age and imperfections in the paper form an essential part of the artwork.

John Williams

Just an artist making marks and enjoying rendering the human form as he continues to explore his creativity.

Michael Ollerton

Michael Ollerton is a Character Artist in the video game industry with a background in illustration and 2D animation. Since moving to London, he has been immersing himself in life drawing classes, with a particular focus on fashion life drawing and the medium of ink brush pens.

Passionate about creating dynamic characters rich in story and personality, Michael enjoys working in both stylized and realistic art styles. He has developed a strong emphasis on conveying appealing shapes and forms and is continually refining his understanding of anatomy, shape, form, cloth/drapery, and hair.

Ina Lee

Ina Lee, originally from Hong Kong and currently based in London, brings forth her creative vision through her personal brand “The Wonder of Ina”. Her art is a celebration of hope and positive energy, manifested in a kaleidoscope of vivid colors that invite the viewer into a realm of boundless imagination. Central to her artistic ethos are advocacies for women’s rights, body positivity, and mental health awareness, woven intricately into the fabric of her creations.

Catherine Bergin

Catherine Bergin is a London based artist interested in exploring the energy and stillness of the human form.

Alison Gardiner

Alison draws active people live and finds regular life drawing essential to her practice. Dancers, musicians, activists, workers, poets, actors, volunteers and cyclists, all on the move and from any angle!

James Rose

James is an art school dropout and long-time life drawing enthusiast. He is low-key a maker, rather than admirer, of art, and rarely has the energy to try to sell works. Sightings in the wild are rare, though he did win the Chairman’s Trophy at the Flitwick Gardeners’ Association annual show last year for a watercolour painting.

Federica Magistrali

Federica focuses on drawing people, bodies, and portraits, which have always been her primary source of inspiration. With a background in graphic design and makeup artistry, her style is distinctly graphic and bold, with a keen attention to detail.

She often works with markers, pencils, and ink, celebrating the human form through a vibrant, expressive, and joyful approach. The body remains the central focus of her art, frequently highlighted by graphic elements in the background or colorful shadows.

Federica’s creative process is intuitive and dynamic, driven by the emotions of the moment and a deep trust in the artistic process.

Barbara Storey

I am self-taught, though in recent years I have completed a selection of courses at Art Academy London and Heatherley. I have been showing my work since early 2022. Recently I have been invited to paint some small work for charity auction. What I love about painting as a form of art is the richness of its aspects. As for the subject: it is how the life leaves a mark and imprints itself on our faces and bodies. I deliberately avoid any identifiable context or narrative which, I hope, encourages viewers’ interpretation of my very own world encapsulated on canvas.

Irene Lafferty

Irene Lafferty is a Scottish artist based in London. A history of art graduate, Irene has been life drawing for over 20 years and has a BTEC in Life Painting from Chelsea College of Art. She also studied life and portrait painting at Heatherley School of Art. She works in oil, ink, gouache and watercolour to capture the translucency of human flesh.

Lukas Nosek

Lukas Nosek is an artist from the Czech Republic based in London. He works as a manager and art school teacher. As a medium, he prefers pen drawing and acrylic markers, embracing their uncompromising nature – each line shapes the final piece. Life drawing offers Lukas a way to engage with the human body beyond the lens of cultural sexualisation. It is an act of quiet and intimate connection – an opportunity to meet the subject as they are. Through his art he explores presence and the raw intimacy of the human form.

Colin Andress

Colin Andress started drawing aged 51 in September 2022, taking a beginners’ class at The City Lit. He has since taken courses at The City Lit and The Art Academy in drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture, and has attended life drawing groups in London regularly since June 2023, fitting classes around his practice as a barrister.

He is particularly drawn to the human figure and portrait, and currently works mainly in drawing and pastels, from life and using reference images, but hopes to develop his practice further in painting and printmaking as he continues to learn and build his skills.

Melvyn Dresner

Melvyn strives to create work that are expressive, fill up the page and some fall off the edge. The aim as much about creating form and space on the page. He has been drawing and learning to draw for a number of years, not formally trained. He sees life and portrait drawing as a chance to experiment and explore different and similar subjects.

Rainer Stolle

I am a visual artist from Germany now based in London. My journey with life drawing began in 2000 in New Zealand, initially as skill development and inspired by fashion illustration’s expressiveness.

My approach embraces spontaneity—no plans, visions, or goals. I welcome surprise and unexpected situations.

Medium selection varies; sometimes immediate, sometimes requiring exploration, occasionally frustrating.

The model drives the process. I prioritize creating mental space to discover visual language that expresses my emotions while drawing.

In essence, I bleed feelings onto the page. Each line and mark represents those emotions.

Amrita Clehane

Amrita is a London-based artist working primarily with charcoal for this series. Their work is rooted in drawing and mark-making, using instinct to find strokes which create a sense of life and movement. They explore how forms shift, emerge, and dissolve over time. While this series focuses on charcoal, Amrita’s wider practice also includes oil and mixed media, always driven by an interest in energy, gesture, and the fleeting nature of an image.

Derek Mason

Derek began regular life drawing about three years ago as a way of properly reconnecting with making visual art after a break of many years. Whilst finding working with a model can be a mediative and immersive process, he tries to respond to their energy and express this in the work. About a year ago he also became interested in portraiture, as a way pushing personal boundaries and to overcome a fear of ‘getting it wrong’ because the face often seems to be the most fundamental representation of a person.

Maki Doi

Maki’s artwork delves into the fluidity of self and the fragmentation of identity, where overlapping figures embody the complexity of human emotions and the coexistence of our many selves. Through bold, calligraphic strokes, each mark a reflection of movement, imperfection, and intention. She weaves a visual language that blurs the line between presence and absence, thought and form. Each piece is a meditation on the ever-shifting nature of identity, inviting the viewer to explore the tension between what is seen, what is felt, and what remains unseen.

Carolina Thorbert

Carolina has been drawing from life for a long time, through fine art and architecture studies in Sweden and London.

She’s got a keen interest in line, shape, contrast and movement and mostly work with graphite, pastels, ink and compressed charcoal in dry or liquid form. Expression and composition as well as finding an underlying feeling of recognition is what is important to her. Working fast to avoid hesitation and capture some essence is an intention.

Carolina regularly attends life and portrait drawing groups in person throughout the London drawing community as well as online, to expand her practice.

Louise Canham

Louise’s focus sits with external effects upon the self. To go deeper into conversations around self worth and body image. How art is a vessel for expression when the words don’t come easily, or simply aren’t enough.

Mark making is fuelled by the raw layers of what it is to be human.The love, loss, envy, loneliness, ecstasy and everything in between of what it is to feel alive. Original pieces are often re-worked, through muscle memory and a state of flow.

Lines distilled down into their most fluid form.

For Louise, drawing provides an escape from perfectionism, and control.

Philip Hood

Philip Hood has been an artist/ illustrator for over fifty years working for a variety of publications and contributing to several exhibitions. His work is varied and he’s happy to work in different mediums depending on the job in hand.

Kate Aspinall

Kate Aspinall (born 1983 Boston, US) is London-based artist and art historian. Her art practice includes large, mixed-media drawings that challenge the long-held distinction between ephemera and presentation pieces, drypoint printmaking and sculptures made from a range of materials. Recent works use expressionist bodies to explore the phenomenon that we call ‘self’ and how it can be porous as it expands and contracts along the boundaries of relationships. This approach is grounded in feminist critiques of the contained, rational individual.

Kristin Erken

Kristin is an artist based in east London. Her preferred medium is painting. She also attends life drawing sessions where she explores a variety of media such as oil pastel, ink and charcoal. The work displayed here is focused on her work with the Walthamstow Life Drawing group, which she regularly attends. For her painting practice, she enjoys working with found materials, such as slate, metal or painting on wood where she follows the grain pattern to find a new world to inhabit visually. Paintings reveal themselves as she works intuitively through the process rather than planning each piece.

Dan Whiteson

Dan Whiteson is a figurative artist & teacher living and working in London. His work deals with the human condition in a digital age.

Attempting to visualise what he describes as a ‘disintegration of physicality’ he uses drawings made initially from life and then re-draws, reduces and disrupts the original image to create sparse, considered figure drawings with a distinct rhythm & musicality. The sharp line, geometry & almost surgical precision are inspired by the curated distractions that distract us from living.

His recent work uses papercutting to further explore the removal of form in space.

Janet Payne

Janet Payne is an artist living and working in London. She specialises in Life Drawing and Landscape, both urban and rural. Her aim is to probe and understand the way we live and who we are

Rashad Al-Karooni

Rashad Al-Karooni is an artist and Architect, based in North London. His drawing style merges an abstract figurative approach with architectural, geometric and bold forms, predominantly using compressed charcoal as a way to express his vision. Rashad has collaborated with Nick Knight CBE (SHOWstudio), T Magazine China (New York Times), Batch, FIDA, JANE Magazine & Sunita Kumar Nair (CBK: A Life in Fashion).

Josie Deighton

Josie Deighton depicts figures as if transparent.

Her pencil, brush or mouse weaving and darting around, inside out.

Her works capture particular states of mind, how it feels, rather than how it looks.

Deighton is a freelance artist and tutor in London and online.

She has been facilitating life / live drawing since 2011.

She is involved in and open to collectives, commissions and collaborations, contact her to arrange purchase of original art works or prints

Jamila Boughelaf

Jamila Boughelaf, a London-based artist of Algerian-Italian heritage, explores social justice and identity through visual and performance art. Her works, in oil, charcoal, or watercolours, evoke childhood memories. She uses improvisation, mixed media, and natural materials like henna, beeswax, and sand to highlight empowerment. Performance art plays a key role in her practice, where both the act and its remnants shape the artwork, evoking deep emotions. Moving beyond traditional painting, Boughelaf experiments with unstretched canvases and fabrics, embracing material flexibility and expanding into new spatial dimensions. In September 2024 she exhibited at The Path at the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Pisani-Revedin.

Steven Baker

After a professtional career in the creative fields, now retuning to a love of drawing the male form. Having not drawn seriously since attending art school, then seven years going back to life drawing after that long gap. Generally attending a group once a week but also drawing models in the studio. Incorporating various materials including collage ,to produce mixed media art works. Drawing men has become an essential part of my creative practice, it’s my first love. I’d go so far as to say I’ve become addicted.

Judy Clarkson

Judy Clarkson first entered the life room during her foundation course at Harrogate School of Art. She was immediately captivated by the process of rendering the human form from a live model, and has found this a vital element of her creativity ever since. She is a figurative artist working in oil paint, and finds regular life drawing an essential inspiration for her studio work. Often she uses models she has drawn in the life room to pose for references she can later paint from. For her, life drawing is a never-ending source of education and joy.

Michael Broughton

Michael Broughton works in charcoal from life, drawing expressively attempting to portray, weight, emotion and the singular condition of life laid bare in the human form. Michael also works in collage stencilling, cutting and reshaping his drawings to further expand upon his image of the human presence.

Santiago Olmos Herrera

Santiago is an artist and illustrator with experience in the film and video game industries. His work focuses on character design and anatomical exploration, with a style influenced by American comics and a visual narrative that emphasizes gesture and stage presence. He often integrates graphic elements into his compositions to enhance the human figure and bring balance to the overall design.

Frank Gambino

Someone models, Frank draws. His work looks like this.

Chris Seddon

I’m a watercolour painter with a particular interest in capturing the human form. I regularly attend life drawing in North London and enjoy working quickly and expressively with as little fussing as possible.

Juan Gimenez Zapiola

Juan is interested in capturing the impression that the human body might hopefully leave on the observer. He tries to seize the inner energy of the model by focusing on the fluency of the lines and the application of watercolour, usually working from fast poses.

John Swanson

Drawing is John’s primary activity as an artist. He works with a variety of drawing media, although his favourite is an old-fashioned dip-pen and ink. Life drawing has been a central part of his work for many years, and, like many people who are serious about good drawing, he believes it is an crucial means of developing and maintaining the necessary skills of observation and execution. His drawing subject areas include the urban and rural landscape, people observed in their daily environment, and illustration for stories, songs and poems.

Gerard Casserly

Gerard Casserly is a painter, printmaker and professional graphic designer working in London and Europe. He exhibits with various artist groups, at art fairs and in galleries and his work can be found in collections in the UK and abroad. Gerard’s work is inspired by his love of drawing and by the landscape and the built environment around him. Observation and drawing directly from life are key to his practice.

Gerard trained at the Richmond College of Art and is a Member of the Chartered Society of Designers.

Harriot Knuckles

Miss Knuckles is a textile artist mostly working in textile sculpture. Here she’s created figures – life stitching – from her life drawing sketches.

Ned Handzic

A regular of London’s life drawing and portrait sessions, focusing on portraits in ink, charcoal and pencil.

Simon Whittle

I have been life drawing for 50 years and I’m still entranced by the possibilities and the pure act of seeing.

Helen Jacobus

Helen mostly draws from life in various London drop-in figure drawing groups, portrait drawing groups, and the same online. Her style is unrealistic, preferring to draw how she sees the model and what she imagines the model is feeling or thinking. She like to use colour as a means of expression.

Maria Antonia Aracil

Drawings in Acrylic paint and charcoal. Fragmented bodies merge and emerge in a work that is charged with erotic energy. Drawing attention to our pleasure from looking at art and at human bodies. A complex moody work that is chaotic, cluttered, volatile, vulnerable, sensual, sexy, wonderful, to summarise, humanity and life.

Engaging the viewer to find something amusing, unusual or provocative. The works and paintings are laced with humour, irony, sexiness, subtle irreverence, and some forwardness.

Stephen Haskins

Stephen is an amateur life drawing artist, he prefers to work with pencils.

Joshua Vega

Joshua Vega is a Colombian artist raised in London, known for capturing movement and expression with speed and precision. Rooted in life drawing and fashion illustration, his work blends ink, oil pastels, and paints, often finished with a digital flair.

Nadhrah Izmi

Nadhrah Izmi (b. 1996, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a neuroscientist, data & AI consultant, and an artist in her free time. Since young, she was fascinated by the world around her and would capture it on paper and canvas. Nadhrah’s main mediums are acrylic and gouache, and she enjoys painting landscapes, film scenes and portraits. In recent years she has found an interest in capturing the beauty of the human body through life drawing, as well as understanding the intersection of neuroscience and art. Nadhrah currently lives in London.

Tracey Smith

Tracey has been working as a Fashion Illustrator and Artist for 3 years after a career as a Fashion Designer. Throughout her working life she has attended drawing and painting classes, always with a focus on the human form. She works predominantly in Charcoal, pastel and watercolour ink from a small home studio. She has recently developed a series of Inky portraits which will be on show at the E8 art trail in June.

Françoise

Françoise is a Luxembourgish multi-disciplinary artist and co-founder of Living Art.

She’s been drawing the figure on and off from a young age. Having a body-centric practice – drawing and modelling the figure has been a grounding constant, which connected her to many great artists and friends.

Despite drawing being a side aspect of her work, it informs and builds the foundation of her creative journey. She appreciates drawing for its flow-inducing properties, the way it sharpens eyes, calibrates hands and inspires the mind.

Jaideep Chakrabarti

Jaideep Chakrabarti is a practicing conservation architect who uses hand drawing as primary communication which includes life drawings and other forms of art.

Jason Roderix

Jason Roderix is an amateur artist who has been drawing seriously since lockdown where he decided at first to illustrate lyrics to his songs using every medium he’d never used before starting with pen, pastels, oil pastels, watercolours, charcoal, acrylic and then his favourite oil paint which has been his long life ambition to use. He gravitated towards life model drawing in order to create more accurate figure drawings for future life size paintings. His journey in oils has been one of the most fulfilling in his life and will no doubt be a life long one.

Michalle Katsir

Based in London, with an interest in humans and their impressions on the world. 

People are fascinating, as art subjects – their appearance and their behaviour, the way they present themselves and the character that they express. This is what Michalle tries to capture and imprint onto a surface, sometimes in the life room, sometimes at home, by drawing and painting.

Oil or ink are Michalle’s preferred medium.

Pauline Cushnie

A mixed media artist, whose works are usually vibrant, bold, and full of emotional expression.

She conjures joyful or peaceful moods using movement, colour, and surfaces.

Specialising in figurative works, her portraits and images of the human form are depicted in various mediums, water colour, inks, acrylic and oils.

Her objective is to create a mood and essence with paint and drawing.

Pauline states:

“I enjoy colour, atmosphere and creating stories – real or imagined.”

Valerie McNulty Garvey

Valerie is an Irish artist who has lived in London since her teenage years. Coming from a Fashion background she enjoys studying the human form to improve her portraiture and fashion illustration work. She works with Watercolour, Pencil and Charcoals and is a member of The Hesketh Hubbard Art Society and The Pinner Sketch Club.

Natalia Littlewood

Women’s beautiful body shape and unpredictable nature attract Natalia a lot; when she see a sunset, or beautiful architecture she thinks that it can make a magic picture.

Abstract can open secrets of your mind – not only feelings. Any subject can be magical if you are a magician!

Calvin Richards

I’m a figurative artist telling stories.

Tim Daly

I draw to relax and to get my hands dirty. Drop in, switch off and produce.

Rosalie Oakman

Rosalie Oakman’s work explores the human experience, focusing on anatomy, psychology, sexuality, mortality, and themes of animal welfare, death, and grieving. Influenced by Egon Schiele, Jenny Saville, Tracey Emin, and Lucian Freud, she works primarily in painting, drawing, and textiles. Drawing from life, her art examines the relationship between body, mind, and identity. By blending beauty with unsettling imagery, she provokes curiosity and reflection on what it means to be human. Her work celebrates both the universal and individual aspects of existence, emphasising that we are more than the images we present to the world.

Jennifer Chiu

Jennifer Chiu is a London-based life drawing enthusiast and life model. As someone who grew up drawing for fun, finding the London life drawing scene and community allowed them to reconnect with their love for art. Life drawing for them is more than an artistic practice, it is a conduit for introspection and practicing mindfulness. Jennifer is passionate about experimenting with different materials and exploring how they bring out distinct changes in artistic style.

Robert Sproats

Robert is a relative newcomer to the London life drawing scene, getting back into producing art in person after the Covid lockdowns. A regular attendee at many life drawing groups, he is continually working to refine his techniques and scope, preferring to work in a digital format on his iPad.

Nicolas Cross

I am an artist from Newcastle upon Tyne, and now live in London. I am interested in drawing from observation, and painting that uses observation as its basis. With painting I like to experiment with colour to add more atmosphere.

Andrea Jones

I’m a portrait artist who regularly takes part in life drawing classes to capture the energy of the human figure.

Rod Kitson

Bored with my straight, representational life drawings I began to add some of the more imaginative, mythological and symbolic motifs which I had built up in my painting practice. These talk to a duality – of worlds chthonic and divine, of good and evil, of the conscious mind and the subconscious. They are sometimes childlike, primal and post rationalised. The model becomes a player in the supernatural, an extension of my imagination, a portal for looking into an inner world which I am trying to better understand.

Aaron Thai

I love life drawing. It is like a performing arts without an audience. It’s a silent relationship between me and the model, an unspoken bond between 2 artist, with one giving the best and one trying the best, with one common goal, creating beautiful art.

Emma Woodcock

Emma has a Fine Art background, and has sketched since a young child. In recent years Emma has found herself drawn back to sketching, life drawing has formed a core point in her creative practice. ” In a world where a deeper sense of connection can often be missing, sketching the human form offers a beautiful richness of connection, holding space collectively and interpreting the form onto paper.

Layla Mohamed

InkyLayla is an artist, obsessed with drawing people from life, savouring the happy accidents of ink and watercolour. She loves to document London’s fetish party scene, drawing people in their finery and making them feel seen.

Mariam Arakelyan

Mariam has a background in social sciences and a deep interest in people and human behavior. Drawing has been a lifelong hobby, which she rediscovered and began pursuing more in recent years. Life drawing became a way to connect her love for sketching with her observations of people. Her work reflects her curiosity about emotions and human nature.

Irina Klyushkova

Irina has been interested in art since childhood. She obtained a formal education in art. Irina uses soft materials in her work, such as charcoal and pastel. She is also confident in watercolour and oil. Working in the traditional manner she is experimenting with materials and styles. She is enjoying life drawing classes at Mall Galleries.

Clive Dolphin

Clive has been painting in watercolour on and off for most of his life. Mainly painting figurative works. He uses the human body as a common communication medium.

A self taught artist Clive uses an experiential expressive style combining line, tone and colour.

Jolene Liam

Jolene Liam is a London-based multidisciplinary artist from Singapore. She believes that the spaces we inhabit and the objects we collect reveal a lot about us; expressions of our identities, habits, and personalities. Liam’s background as an architect has fuelled an interest in observing and documenting how places are occupied and experienced. In the process, she hopes to encounter different ways of thinking about the spaces around us, from everyday and in-between places to imagined landscapes. The ‘in-between’ and the ‘not quite’ are her tools of choice, creating works that sit on the boundaries between drawing and sculpture.

Alexandra Veres

Alexandra Veres has an academic background, though art has always been integral to her life since she could hold a pencil in her hand. In more recent years, she has regularly sketched for ten hours a day, her work very much informed by her reverence for the old masters and the ancient Greeks. She is, by contrast, also influenced by fashion and book illustration, as well as the Hollywood goddesses of the 1950s. Life drawing has been the beating heart of her art for the past fifteen years. Her preferred media are charcoal, pastel and oil.

Sarah Habershon

Sarah Habershon works in ink for her life drawings, attempting to capture in a single line the most important gestures and characteristics of the pose, and the mood presented by the model. Sometimes experimenting with colour, and the placement of the figure on the paper, she enjoys a sense of freedom working quickly and loosely in this way.

Isabella Ward

Isabella Ward is a figurative artist working primarily in charcoal, pastels and oil paints. She is a passionate advocate for life drawing and the benefits of observational drawing which are the basis for her artistic practice.

Zoe Clark

Zoe C is an early career portraitist

Agustin Coll

Agustin is an artist and illustrator inspired by architecture and the built environment. Attending life drawing sessions is a way for him to let go of the constraints of his art and also good practice for his freelance job as a storyboard artist.

Hakob Muradian

Hakob Muradian is a multidisciplinary figurative artist mainly working with human form. Using many mediums (Oil paint, clay, ink, charcoal, pen, photography, digital sculpture and drawing)is an important part of the explorational process of his work. Long observational process which is essential for Hakob’s practice gives time for deeper understanding of the sitters.

Dimitris Giannakopoulos

Dimitris studied painting at Athens School of Fine Arts. He participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Greece and UK since 2007. He is currently living and working in London.

Anna Niman

Anna Niman is a multidisciplinary artist from London whose work traverses painting, photography, light-based installations and performance. Anna believes art should be fun, open and accessible to all. Since 2013, she runs the weekly London Art & Drawing life drawing and portrait drawing sessions at different locations in North London and online. She also runs art workshops on different techniques.

Leticia Garcia

Leticia is a self-taught artist who brings to her practice one of her biggest inspirations: PEOPLE

Leticia tries to catch their emotions, stories, and characters and transfer them on paper, canvas, or clay. She believes every face tells a story and can read it like a book. Every gaze invites a conversation. Every pose evokes emotion, expression, and interpretation. She creates works that celebrate the idea of psychological connection and being human.

With no formal training, Leticia has tapped into the backdrop of short courses and life-drawing groups, and is a member of Islington Art Society, and Camden Artist Network.

Kallie Ennever

Kallie is a London based artist and illustrator, with a background in animation and design. Life drawing has always been a practice of observing movement; working quickly and energetically, responding only to the nuances of the present moment.

Keith Slote

Keith Slote’s background as an Art Director in set design spills over into his life drawing with wanting to draw the space a figure occupies, the dent it leaves in the work.

Exhibited at ING Discerning Eye 24, Green and Stone 24, Wells Contemporary 23 SGFA 23

Levin Pfeufer

Lev is an artist, designer and musician from NYC based in London for the past 20 years. Lev’s creative efforts seek to build on the visceral moments of life, while looking for pathways of connection and association across mediums. Lev is a longtime facilitator of creative collectives that bring people together through visuals and sound. He celebrates diverse narratives, always aiming to build positivity and playfulness in the process of doing.