Drawing Circles opened in the winter of 2019, in a second-floor room above a bicycle shop. Six years on, the room has not changed: one long table, a bank of north-facing windows, a shelf of brown paper.
The school runs on a simple idea: most people can learn to draw if someone shows them how, and if the room is quiet enough to hear the pencil. We teach in small groups — never more than sixteen — with teachers who draw for a living and happen to teach on the side.
We are not a degree programme. We do not grade. We have no gallery, no shop, no shows. What we have is a schedule, and six teachers, and a kettle.