Simon Whittle is booked to hold x2 life drawing classes at Erotic Art London on:

Saturday 28th April 1pm-3pm

Sunday 29th April 1pm-3pm

Places are free with any entrance ticket if you want to join us, but you must book in advance to participate. For more information please email info@eroticartexhibition.com

A little bit of info on Simon….

SIMON WHITTLE

I am a figurative painter specialising in the female figure. I love the play of light over skin and fabric, the forms and curves of the model. My paintings celebrate the beauty I see in my models and have a sensuality and eroticism that comes from them and the way they pose. It is a collaborative process as we work together to get a look we are both happy with.

I work with models I know well. My principal ‘muse’, Yelena, has been a close friend for over a decade and is a co-creator of the poses and atmosphere in the paintings. Other models are ones I use for my Art Society.

I work from photographs. This is partly because it takes me a relatively long time to finish a painting and this allows me to cut down on the modelling fees, but also because Yelena lives in Russia and I do not have access to her for long enough to get the paintings done. I actually love painting and drawing from ‘life’.

I have always painted. I started working seriously in my gap year when I was living in Mexico City in 1974-5. I did my first life drawings at that time in the life class at the Academia San Carlos, and was then tutored in drawing by the animator Gerald / Gerry Ray (Bullwinkle, Rocky and several other great ‘cartoons’) and the English painter Toby Joysmith who introduced me to acrylics and encouraged me to paint from the heart.

I draw from life every week. On my return to the UK in 1979 I joined the Hesketh Hubbard Art Society at the Mall Galleries and was elected President in 1991, a post I still hold. We are London’s largest life drawing group with around 100 artists drawing from 4 models on a weekly basis. I book the models and organise the classes. I also served as a Trustee on the Board of the Mall Galleries / Federation of British Artists for 12 years.