Pastel still-life: at Questors Theatre Ealing

A small exhibition of pastel drawings from life, from the late 1980s. I joined a private art school in Holland Park, which provided the props, but not much else. The drawings were produced using high-
quality, pigment-rich pastels in one sitting. The pictures were sold, but I miss them now, and would like them back.

pastel: church in kent 1991

1980s double life-class

I have just found this photograph at the bottom of a pile of papers and old bank statements, of a now-lost A2 size pastel drawing on paper from the distant past, of  two life-models, an easel and a table. Back then I worked in an architect's office on a drawing board by day and frequented life-classes by night. In those days life-classes were cheap and plentiful in London. This class could have been at the Central School or St. Martins in Charing Cross Road. Friday nights after a week of drawing tight drawings of prisons or shopping malls to even tighter deadlines were the best: it was a case of a two hour burst of productive activity, and then down to the pub until closing time, and the last tube home to Ealing.