Laurie Burn

Laurie, who runs the folk club at Totterdown Baptist Church has been gently nagging me to draw an illustrated logo for the club for months. He’d sent me photos but that so rarely works for me. I need not only to look at what I’m drawing but to be in the middle of it. Finally, I found a first Saturday of the month when I could spend the whole evening drawing at the club’s ‘Singaround’ night.

This was the most fantastic life drawing session for just £1. The music was great and there was this special atmosphere of affirmation – I suppose I had stepped into a tiny world that extends across several counties, where everyone knows your song and loves to hear it anyway. Everyone sang twice, three numbers the first time and just one on the second round – and my second round of drawings, done in a fraction of the time, were all the best ones.

The Saltcellar Folk Club always features floor singers and musicians but there is also a full programme of visiting acts which you can see on their website, http://www.saltcellarfolk.org.uk

Hopefully one or two of my sketches will be appearing there too!

From left: Jan, Jim Tigwell, David Cheffing, Ray Croll, and Douglas Hamilton