Closing The Circle with Life Drawing Male Model, Billy (Oil Paint,1990) I think I used to be an artist of some sort. It seems many lifetimes before lockdown but it began in 1989 when I swapped the school tie of the all-boys sixth form uniform for a Clash T-shirt and started my Foundation Art and Design at Liverpool. I completely fell in love with it and it was a real sense of home coming to be in arts education. Suddenly my creative voice counted and I could begin to tell the story of my own life in images. I loved Art Foundation and although it was a yearlong course somehow, (back in the days of education funding and opportunity) I managed to hang on and stay for three years. During that time, the rigor of Life Drawing was a staple of the weekly structure. Often we would have a full day pose, or at least two afternoons working from either the female or male model. We learned the academic underpinning of all forms of visual practice which came from our own understanding of the sh...