Brighton Girl of the Year nomination (3 years in a row)
As you may have been following, I was crowned Brighton Girl of the Year in 2024 with Brighton Girl Network. I was nominated again for…
Drawversity Safeguarding, Cultural Awareness & Professional Practice for Tutors
Purpose of this document This document outlines Drawversity’s expectations for tutors, facilitators, and session leaders when working with life models of colour. It exists to…
Drawversity Safeguarding & Professional Boundaries for Life Models
Purpose of this document This document exists to support Drawversity life models in navigating the professional, cultural, and ethical realities of working within life drawing…
Callaloo // Publication
“Callaloo has emerged as the most essential and continuously published journal in matters pertinent to African American and African Diaspora Studies worldwide. Dr. Charles H.…
My time at Draw Brighton
Bold title right… straight to the beginning then I guess? It’s April 2019 and I had been back from living in China for about three…
The Drawing Circus
I finally made it into The Drawing Circus! As a big finale for the studio/building closing, Jake Spicer, founder of Draw Brighton, decided he was…
Drawversity, Pride 2025 // The Last Session at Draw Brighton.
Yep, you read it correctly, we had our last session at the Draw Brighton studio on Saturday 2nd August 2025. Our first home, the setting…
Life Model // Tour 2025
Life Modelling in Barcelona Barcelona was the first leg of my tour, preceding Paris and London. I decided to go to each place for one…
ESEA Models & Muses
This year Drawversity will be sharing with you the inspiring, and rather audacious, Chinese and Japanese models and muses in recognition of ESEA Heritage month.
Getting Nude in Nature
“This is a project about age, the social construction of age. I think it’s a harmful construction – unlike this project. It messes with how…
Drawversity // Making changes
I was setting up for my class in the Hove studio, it was June 2024 and I was catching up with the lovely Steve and…
LOOSENING UP. With Sara Reeve (& Me).
Semi-finalist Sara Reeve invites us into her creative world with a fresh and looser approach to portrait painting. In this demonstration, she embraces the challenge…
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