Exhibition
Hesketh Hubbard Art Society 2020
25 Nov 2020 – 6 Dec 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Admission Free, but Booking will be required - watch this space for updates.
Address
- The Mall
- London
- SW1Y 5BD
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 23, 24, 29, 53, 87, 88, 91, 139, 159, 176, 179, 453
- Tube: Charing Cross (2 minutes walk), Piccadilly Circus (5 minutes walk), Embankment (5 minutes walk)
- Rail: Charing Cross
Life drawing and painting created by members at the weekly life class, which has been running since 1930
About
Presenting this year’s Annual Exhibition by The Hesketh Hubbard Art Society, London’s largest life drawing class.
The Society was founded in 1930 to offer artists the chance to draw direct from the figure, without tuition, in a friendly, collegiate atmosphere, and has been running ever since. At their weekly classes, 100 or so members come together to sketch from four models: three nude (in 15 minute, 30 minute, and 2 hour poses), and one clothed.
During these sessions, members study proportion, perspective and form as they put down on paper the human figure, perhaps the most difficult of subjects: more than just shapes and shadows, but muscles and bones; poses with dynamics, each singular in gesture and personality.
This year the Society welcomed three young artists under a new bursary scheme, Jonathan Ambrose, Kelly Frank and Christoph Bryant, whose works will be among the one hundred or so on display.
Through a year's worth of sketches, paintings and drawings by the members, the exhibition gives an excellent overview of the excitement and struggle involved in life drawing and interpreting the contemporary nude today.