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Domestic photo-set: The Dining Room (Bella, Lance & Frankie)

Added 2025-03-21 10:00:09 +0000 UTC

This photoset is the first of our new domestic series, exploring the potential of different rooms of a house as settings for painterly tableau of staged domestic action. In collaboration with our photographer Justyna Neryng and with Tobias Slater-Hunt assisting on lighting the models explored a series of interior narratives, inspired by historical and contemporary works of art. In this particular set we wanted to use the stepped doorways leading out of the dining room to create a series framed compositions, referencing Ewan Uglow's The Blue Towel, with the muted colour palette and quiet atmosphere of Vilhelm Hammershøi's interiors. We've included a series of crops of the main images to help you make closer studies of the models. We always intend these sets to be a starting point for your own creative responses, so feel free to re-compose, crop and reimagine the reference images in your own work. For lunch in the dining room Bella is serving Yotam Ottolenghi's Soba noodles with aubergine and mango - you'll find the recipe linked below.

Recommended eating: Soba noodles with aubergine and mango

About the model & photos

You can follow our models Frankie, Bella & Lance through the links.
You can find more reference photos & live recordings of our models by searching their names in our archive
Some of the artworks which inspired the photoset are included below:

Vilhelm Hammershøi / Interior, Strandgade 30, 1902

Vilhelm Hammershøi / Interior, Strandgade 30, 1899

Ewan Uglow / The Blue Towel, 1982-3, Oil on canvas

About the photographers

The photos in this set were shot by Justyna Neryng at our domestic photoshoot, you can see previews of the refernce photos being released this Spring in our teaser HERE.

Guidelines for using the photographs

Please do:

Download these pictures to your own computers and devices, downloading the Zip files for all images, or saving individual photos.
Use the pictures to draw, paint, print and sculpt from, being as realistic or creative as you like
Share the artwork you’ve made with us and the world - in books, in exhibitions, on social media, or on your fridge
Tag us in work you make (@drawbrighton / #drawbrighton) – you don’t have to, but we love to see what you’ve made!
Edit the photo files as reference for your own drawings - you can change the contrasts, colours and backgrounds to provide more tailored reference for yourself.

Please don't:

Share these pictures with anybody else – they are between you and us
Share the photos themselves online – thanks for respecting our models’ privacy
Edit the photo files themselves for artwork – we want to see original work you’ve made

Thanks!