(Nicky Browne
writes) The warm Spring sunshine shone on a very large crowd of Urban Sketchers
when we met in Spitalfields to sketch on Saturday 30 March 2019. Spitalfields is an area bursting with a wide
range of subjects to draw. These range from
Nicholas Hawksmoor's Christ Church to the late Victorian Old Spitalfields
Market, to the Georgian streets surrounding the area.
Artists Tracy
Emin and Gilbert & George have houses in Georgian Fournier Street, which
leads down to Brick Lane. Tracy is reputed to drink at the exquisite Ten Bells
on the corner of her street, but she stayed indoors while we were there.
The market
itself is wonderful for people watching on a Saturday. It is a vast warehouse
of stalls selling food, clothes, jewellery, accessories and a wonderful hat
stall presided over by a man in a top hat and a gold earring.
Sketchers produced a great range of portrayals of this fascinating area:
Our next
meet-up will be on Saturday 27 April when we sketch in Croydon – details are elsewhere
on this blog and we hope you will join us.
Photographs are by Nicky Browne and Helen Hayhoe.
