Our first sketch date for the New Year will be Tuesday 14 January, we have found a new indoor venue, The Victory Pub on the Balcony of Waterloo Mainline Station. You need to go into the Station, face away from the platforms, and you will see the Balcony. Artists can sit on the Balcony and look out over the station interior, glazed roof, etc., and passengers both still and moving. The pub's part of the Balcony features an artificial blossom tree, and inside looks Victorian/Edwardian but is brand new, and there is the major architectural feature of the enormous half moon window that is the top of the Victory Arch. The Victory Arch entrance to Waterloo was built between 1907 and 1922, and was given its name to commemorate the railwaymen who gave their lives in the first and second World Wars.
Images can be found here and here It is a good sketching location as there are many secluded nooks, hopefully the bar staff will be visible, and also the odd person (one of us) sitting at a table.
We will meet in the pub at 11 o'clock, they are expecting us and are happy to have us sketch, and we can have lunch there. The mornings are very empty so we will be able to spread ourselves around, and there are of course the art possibilities of the station proper.
Meanwhile, we hope that you all have a very Happy Christmas and New Year, we look forward to seeing you in 2025, and indeed in the Victory Pub.
Finally, one further image to encourage you onto the sunlit uplands of your sketching journeys in 2025:
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| Image above by Sue Lees |
