UK sketches 2022: London

In June/July I went on my first overseas trip since 2019, and here is the beginning of the sketchbook. (Update: the second half is at UK Sketches 2022: Dartmoor and Glasgow.)

I didn’t sketch a whole lot on the trip. I am editing a large project that is fighting back, and had some other deadlines, and still wasn’t really well yet. And the rest of the time I was catching up with people and/or looking at things with people, neither of which really suit sketching.

But I did draw a fair bit on my three days in London — there was a tube strike, so I only arranged two meetings, and I had my days largely to myself. So in spite of the heat, I got to the V&A and the Soane collection, among others, and walked along canals and met a fashion MA student (skyc.design) who suggested I go sketch at the Graduate Fashion Week, so I did that, too.

First international flight (second trip) since 2019

Sunny day in the V&A courtyard

The Fashioning Masculinity exhibition at the V&A

Men’s fashions, microscopes at the Beatrix Potter exhibition, and pelicans in St James’s Park

Roman Road Markets

Photographers at the Graduate Fashion Week at the Coal Drops Yard

Audience and photographers at the Graduate Fashion Week

Fashion sketches! Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts

Bath School of Design

Bath School of Design

Fashion, racks, a narrowboat bookstore, rowing classes

Notes at the Soane museum, purposeful abundance, the light of Rome, infinite arpetures, convexities

More sketches soon! (Update: more sketches up at UK Sketches 2022: Dartmoor and Glasgow.)