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people get a drink from the bar and enjoy our playlists of music. We don’t teach anything. People just come along and give it a go.
“We have people who have never drawn before and they might be sitting beside an artist who has just come along from their own studio.
“In a way, the sessions are a bit like going to yoga as you have to concentrate, it makes your brain focus and you totally de-stress as a result.
“Everyone says time flies so fast during the session and you feel so chilled out afterwards.
“Some folk come along on their own, some people come with friends, some might bring their mum or dad and we have a lot who come along on dates.
“We’ve had couples who have come along on a first date or met at a class, then gone on to stay together.”
Joanna, from Glasgow, says Scotland has a small army of life models.
She added: “We have different models every week – of all ages, shapes and size.
“A lot of them pose with props but we veer away from anything sexy or burlesque.
“Every week I have people coming up to me saying they want to become a model and we hold regular training workshops where models, myself and some others who are dancers and yoga teachers can teach them about expression and shape.”
Such is the success of Joanna’s clubs, she now runs them every week in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen.
She is set to run additional sessions as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, featuring chains of life models and live music. And she is in demand to set up her franchise across the world.
She said: “I’ve got people about to start a club in Melbourne and in Berlin.
“I’ve people from lots of countries asking me to take my sessions there but it’s very important that they are run the right way and don’t just become any other life drawing class. What we do is very relaxed. It’s important it stays that way.”
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