I worked in Biomedical Sciences playing with genes, pathogens and microscopes. When I developed Type 1 Diabetes I wondered if could try and communicate some of the science I knew non verbally through Drawing.
I headed over to Wimbledon College of Art with a plastic bag containing some of my ideas sketched out envelopes in ball point pen. I discussed them with the Head of MA Drawing, Michael Pavelka, who amazingly said I could be accepted on the course. I was extremely pleased.
Wimbledon College of Art ran a Life Drawing Class on Monday night and I thought this was the sort of thing I thought I should be doing. It was terrifying – I’d got thrown out of the Art Class at school, I had no train or qualifications in art, I’d never drawn in front of anybody before, the paper was huge, I had no idea how to erect an easel & worst of all the people around me could really draw. I sensed the Tutor, Dan Coombes, was somewhat perplexed as to what I was doing there but was generous and persevered with me, for which I thank him.
Intimidated and fearful I started of by “Squaring Up”, which I read about in the library but soon move on to arm’s length measuring, measuring every thing against the size of the model’s head. It was uncanny to witness how the body and obvious features fall neatly in multiples of head. . .
Life drawing can be an expensive past time so I made do with drawing cloathed people in public spaces – this is an art form in itself.
More recently I have started attending Life Drawing Classes at The Anna Lovely Gallery.
Wimbledon College of Art 2013-14
The Anna Lovely Gallery
