Well Figure Arts Bassendean has completed for the year. Well done and thank you to the team and especially our loyal patrons. We averaged about 26 participants per session. Sufficient for us to employ two model stations, Portrait and Figure in our fabulous venue at the Bassendean Community Centre. We will start again January 27th [Australia Day public holiday] Until then Seasons Greeting and great drawing for 2025!

Adding to my previous apology, I can now declare the contact issue is fixed. This means you can again readily contact me with enquiries about life drawing in Perth. I have made some contact via my website log, but cannot reply directly to previous enquiries. So please contact me again if your still wish to. For more recent enquiries I will try and make contact via the platform log. Some contacts have been about model training. This is to advise that most life-drawing groups will be closed for at least 6 weeks across the Christmas break. So no gigs available for newcomer models. However I am happy to consider training in preparation for next year.  Also, fortunately the Life Drawing in Perth facebook page is the MOST reliable way to find out more about what happening  with regular updates about the WA life-drawing scene.

Hello to all of those who have sent me emails in the last two months. I have discovered that my link from website to email address is currently not operative. Hoping it will be fixed soon and I will respond. Thank you.

My wife Georgia and I have joined forces and now have a joint website. EFFORD STUDIOS is now fully operational https://effordstudios.com/collections/all?page=5 A great opportunity to view our works and also to purchase drawings and paintings.

Later there will also be examples of further artworks as they emerge.

Enjoy!

Great pleasure to announce my wife Georgia’s upcoming exhibition at thee Zig Zag Gallery.Opening Friday 12th April. [13th April until 5th May] Opening hours are 10 until 4pm. It’s a great show that develops Georgia’s perceptive insights into the domain of both reality and realisation of time passing. Hope you can get to see this exceptional show.

Well with the rest of the world in near chaos, it is a humble privilege to live in a country of some sanity, which enables us to enjoy such a creative pleasure of a life drawing group. Figure arts Bassendean has a history going back to the late ninetys’ with various shifts  in venues in the eastern suburbs. Our current location is everything our group could wish for. Large space, kitchen, air con and easy access to Basso station, plus readily accessible parking. Pre covid we easily fitted in up to 40 drawers at three drawing areas, but today is more like around 30 regulars that show up. You are most welcome to join us in 2024. Commencing January 22nd  Map below. $20 per 3 hour session.

Well with winter well and truly under way is not so favourable to get out and about. We at Basso FAB have it sorted in a fully heated venue and great party pie warmers for morning tea. It’s a great morning of life drawing!

It would seem life drawing groups are beginning to get back to normal at last. Our group at Bassendean has numbers slowly increasing and we are now operating with two groups in the one room. Nude life drawing short poses and a portrait group. You are most welcome to attend. Info below. Hoping soon we will have the numbers for three groups.

I understand that other group numbers are filling up also.

Phew! About time.

This means also that we are interested in new models so take a look at our model ‘being a model’ page if this is your gig. More news soon.