LOCATIONS
I am personally based in Wandsworth,SW London and therefore available to model throughout GREATER LONDON including the Home Counties,Surrey,Kent,Hampshire,Hertfordshire Buckinghamshire,Berkshire,Cambridgeshire,Oxfordshire and also all areas of Sussex.I am forever meeting ladies in pubs,shops,gym classes who have attended my parties in and around the SW London areas and estimate that at least 90% of all my London bookings are located in SW London!!
Please also peruse my About the Life drawing link opposite for more details regarding tutored or studio hen party life drawing classes.Also scroll down for recommended venues for your party. I am also available NATIONWIDE especially popular locations such as Bath,Bournemouth,Brighton,Cambridge,Dorset,Gloucs and Oxford Coincidently too my very first hen party was my largest to date with 38 ladies present and I surpassed this personal record with an amazing 52 ladies present at a party in a beautiful house located in Sandbanks,Poole on the Dorset coast on November 20th 2009.
However,the average number of ladies present at my parties tends to range between 6 to 20 in number and no party is too small for a drawing session.
I have a holiday home in the beautiful Lake District,Cumbria too and would you believe that I was once booked by a hen party two years ago to model at a party in their rented holiday home located in the next neighbouring village.Although all the girls from that particular party were from the Manchester area I could not believe it when the lady booking me gave me the exact address of the party.I stayed at my cottage which was of course handy and then returned to London a few days later during the week! I have also just been booked by a lady to model for a party in London 2011 who used to visit the site when she was younger with her family where my holiday home is based-It is indeed a small world with all my many hen party bookings........
I do regularly model for several hen parties in one weekend encompassing and encapsulating Friday evenings,Saturdays and Sunday afternoons as well as some week-day evenings too.It is quite usual for me to model for two or three parties in one day on a Saturday and sometimes up to four separate parties but I have just surpassed my personal best and record by modelling for an amazing,awesome FIVE parties in one day all coincidently conveniently located in SW London on May 15th,2010 with a total of EIGHT hen parties that particular weekend and since then I have also modelled for another FIVE parties in one day on July 17th 2010,May 14th 2011 and July 9th 2011 (lucky me!!) giving each party my unique,individual attention and 100% energy and commitment. Coincidently,there was a girl drawing at my last party booking out of five on July 9th 2011 who unbelievably lived around the corner from me growing up when I was much younger and so much younger than today.She also attended the same secondary school as myself but two years below me and knowing most of the same people in our locality too!!
SOME MORE AMAZING COINCIDENCES
Coincidently, most of my London parties tend to fall into the SW London areas and I have indeed modelled for several parties within walking distance of my own home in Wandsworth.The nearest parties being just around the corner from my address in Wandsworth and the a lady once called to book me for a party a few years ago which was originally designated and organised to be held at a flat in Kensington a few months prior to the booking.I then received a phone-call a few days before this particular party and the girl explained that more of her friends had perused the website and had cheekily added themselves to the hen party guest-list thus increasing the numbers of ladies expected........She apologetically explained that the party was now to be re-located to her house in Wandsworth and as I was taking down the new address details I suddenly stopped writing and asked her to repeat the exact address again!!
She did so and to my amusement her house was on my own road and literally eight doors away. Need less to say that I did not ask for my travelling expenses that day and we still wave at each other when passing.....I also have a tendancy to meet and bump in to other ladies from my previous hen parties on a frequent basis when in my local are too!!
You can image my surprise when three ladies walked upto me in my local pub and stated that they hardly recognised me with my clothes on (cliched I know!) and they were ladies who had been to a hen party I had modelled for in Oxford a few weeks before.
I do find it amusingly coincidental that the majority of my London bookings are in the SW London area but even if I am booked in such popular locations such as Bath,Oxford or other similar locations there is always a contingency of the girls who also live in SW London and some quite near to my home too as it transpires......... I regularly practise Hot Bikram Yoga at Parson's Green,Fulham and Balham studios and am always meeting girls at my hen parties who also attend the yoga classes.Thay have no excuse to tell me that they did not recognise me with my clothes on as you are vitually naked anyway when practising hot Bikram yoga!! Please be assured that I am an experienced photographic editorial (and fully-clothed!) model as well as a nude life model and pride myself on keeping toned fit and presentable assuring you of my best attention at all times.I practise Hot Bikram yoga five times a week as well as regular visits to my health club.
Remember it is always worth "baring" in mind ladies that a life model is NOT a fashion model and the model that arrives at your party could be any age,shape or size if you do not ask for photographs from an individual model or the company/organisation offering to supply hen party life drawing entertainment!! In my vast un-surpassed experience of modelling for so many hen parties I also know that it as well as having a fit,toned physique it is equally as important to have an intelligent fun sense of humour combined with charming charisma to entertain the ladies in a non-threatening environment,professional and gentlemanly manner......... I modelled for a party at a beautiful holiday cottage in Whitchurch,Shropshire in the summer of 2009 and a few weeks later when I was at a local pub in Wandsworth Town three ladies approached me and to my pleasant surprise told me that they "barely" recognised me with my cloths on and it transpired that although the party was in Shropshire the ladies all lived locally to me in Wandsworth.
I once modelled at at a party in a road just behind my own road in Wandsworth/Battersea and the party was held in a first floor flat with 14 ladies already present at 2pm in the afternoon. The ladies explained that they were expecting a few late arrivals travelling from outside London and that they would leave the front door ajar for them to let themselves in.....I had already begun my second quick standing pose facing the door when two girls bounded up the stairs and rushed in.One girl stopped in her tracks and just stared at me in disbelief ( which most people do anyway so nothing new there then!! ) but to my own surprise she smiled and said " Hi Simon!" and it was my turn to be surprised and it turned out that she had met and drawn me at a hen party in Oxford a few months before but had no idea that I would be modelling for her best friend"s hen party in SW London too.
I have discovered that hen parties are a small world and I have had six bookings via word of mouth from just one party I modelled for in Hammersmith last November.
AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE
I have actually modelled for parties located very close to my home in SW London and once even a party on my on own road only eight doors away from my home in Wandsworth.However,I recently modelled for a party in Southampton organised by one of the prospective bridesmaids.We established during our booking telephone conversation that she only lived a few minutes walk away from me in Wandsworth,however whilst I was modelling at the party on Saturday 5.09.2009 and chatting with her I asked her exactly where her flat was in Wandsworth and to my amazement it transpired that I had actually modelled for a hen party about three years ago in her flat before she moved there!!
It is indeed a small world......
ANOTHER AMUSING ANECDOTE-I was booked to model for a very exclusive girls" private school sixth form in Surrey for three consecutive classes in 2009 after the young female art teacher at the school met me at an evening life drawing class in London at one of the top art colleges.The very first class was very formal and straightforward with only 12 young ladies drawing when I returned to model for them the very next week the art teacher was giggling as she met me at the reception and she expained that the girls were all very excited at drawing their very first male nude model and they had been telling their friends who had in turn "googled" my life drawing model website! The teacher,students and myself had not realised that the life drawing sessions were open to the entire sixth form regardless of whether they were taking art A level or not and when the teacher and I neared the art room she stopped at a window and beckoned me over whilst still giggling and to my complete bemusement we both counted an awesome audience of 64 excited ladies all ready to draw......... She asked me if I was comfortable with the situation which seemed initially much more daunting than a full-blown hen party but I thought it would be rude not to and boldly walked in and immediately put all the girls at ease with my quick-fire humour and charming,friendly personality.Ironically,this was not my main surprise and when it came time for me to "reveal" all for the commencement of the life drawing one girl who had been staring at me particularly intently just gave a loud cry of "Oh my god!!" and ran out the room laughing.... I guess that I am used to that particular reaction sometimes when modelling professionally for a younger age group and the teacher apologised and when the girl returned a few minutes later the teacher gently reprimanded her and told the class that they were to have a more mature approach to the life drawing (which in all fairness they actually did on that day!!).However, the girl who ran out explained that she was really sorry and then dropped a bombshell that it was not the fact that she was being immature at all and her next sentence completely amused me as she gasped "But Miss I have a picture of him on my wall cut out of a fashion magazine from a watch advert modelling with a female model and just wait until I phone my mum this evening to tell her that her that I have now just seen my fantasy model on the wall completely naked!!"
MODELLING AND TRAVEL EXPENSES
My actual modelling fee is £150 for your special day/party and if I am travelling outside Greater London then I do respectfully ask you contribute towards my travelling expenses and in this scenario have found that the costs are usually an extra £10-50 depending on location and method of travel but travel expenses outside Greater London can be negociated in this instance as I am flexible.I invariably travel to your party by public transport and if you book me in advance then I usually able to purchase my rail travel tickets in quite inexpensively in advance thus helping to keep your own hen party costs to a minimum.I am never gratuitous when asking for my travel costs and am very fair with fares! If i can walk as opposed to taking a bus then I will when at the town/city location or if I can catch a bus as opposed to taking a taxi then I am cool with this too.....
I am available NATIONWIDE and the travel costs/expenses may be slightly higher such as £170 plus travel expenses for hen night life modelling further afield although interestingly enough popular locations seem to be London,Home Counties,Surrey,Kent,Bath,Oxford,Bournemouth and Brighton when I am booked.
My most amazing journey in one day for two hen parties starting 30 miles outside Bath in a cottage and then onto a cottage just outside Illfracombe on the North Devon coast which was so remote that even the Sat-Nav system could not find it-Just as well it was so remote though as I ended up singing karaoke with the girls well into the night!!
HEN NIGHT PARTY LIFE DRAWING IN BATH,BRIGHTON,BOURNEMOUTH,CAMBRIDGE and OXFORD
I have found that in recent years that the beautiful city of Bath has played host to many of my hen night party bookings.It is an historic city with a central location and I have modelled at many privately rented cottages,apartments and flats in and around the city.Oxford has also proved to be a popular location as well as Brighton and Bournemouth.
I also work with a young talented female art tutor in Bath should your party require a tutored life drawing session.Please contact me directly for her details/website should you require a female tutor for your hen party life drawing class in Bath and surrounding areas.
TUTORED LIFE DRAWING CLASSES IN A STUDIO I also work with three of my female artist friends with hen parties who each have studios at their respective locations which might be an option for your party locations and should you also require a more formal tutored life drawing class in various different areas of London.Please view the About Life Drawing link for more details.
RESTAURANT with private conservatory function room-See above for two photographs
I can also recommend a fantastic restaurant where I have modelled for several hen parties in recent years which has a very private conservatory.The cuisine is European and delicious.
The Hill,40 Wimbledon Hill Road,Wimbledon,SW19 7PA www.40thehill.com
I often meet ladies at my parties who have met and drawn me before at other hen parties and it is indeed a small world with my hen party life drawing pursuits especially in the SW London areas! I was recently modelling at a wondertful party for nine ladies at a private apartment in Central London and one of the girls there knew me from a party I had modelled for a few months prior to the booking in Balham,SW London but the most amazing coincidence from that particular hen party was when I arrived and after making my "grande entrance!" I was infomred that one of their friends was unable to make and attend the party,however the girls had printed her photograph on T-shirt in her honour as she could not make it and she was there in spirit if not in prescence.The ladies asked me to wear just the T-shirt with her image for fun and took some photographs to send her as a joke.The lady who was unable to make the party then replied with a text surprising all the other girls saying "Tell Simon I said hello!!" and that she knew me and having drawn me at another hen party earlier this year in Battersea! |
