When spring finally begins to wake from a winter’s sleep, it really sparks my creativity. It’s also a time of experimentation and I like to push myself to the limits.
Figure drawing class, properly run, should feel welcoming and inclusive, warm, safe, and subdued: a sanctuary of peace, quiet, and unpressured concentration.
Virtually all public spaces conducive to drawing from life remained off-limits to unchaperoned women of the upper class, who alone possessed sufficient wealth and leisure to allow for artistic pursuits.
It is an early January morning in Frankfurt. Still dark. I am trudging across the Messe Frankfurt Platz on my way to get the Nitram booth ready for another day at the CreativeWorld Trade Show.