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The model for Euan Uglow's Articulation was Lisa Coleman. Here are some of her memories of posing for it.

It was the only time I've been a model and I found it fascinating. It was the first time I met what I would call a REAL artist, someone obsessed with their pursuit of... I'm not sure what, capturing some illusive second in time, which doesn't actually exist. I remember he was working on a small painting of a pear, and I could not get my head round what pear he was actually drawing, because the specimen marked and plumblined was the most severely decomposed I had ever seen, and yet he was trying to capture a ripe pair. I quizzed him so much that he gave me the pear for christmas! I treasure it as a lesson in the concept that he did not paint to produce pictures, but that they were by-products of his quest to capture the perfect fall of light. It was also very liberating for me as a woman to be naked and yet feel completely comfortable, being viewed in a completely different way from how society normally judges the female form. So it was a unique and quite bizarre relationship in my life, travelling to Clapham three days a week and chatting naked to someone who seemed to see the rest of life as an unwelcome distraction from his work, someone who I came to consider as a close friend.