Laura Gentile is a professional art model in Luxembourg, an exhibited figurative artist and published erotic poetess.

After 10 years in Edinburgh as an interdisciplinary theatre, arts and education professional with three degrees in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture, I’m currently based in Luxembourg working with artists, life drawing groups, art academies, sculptors, cultural institutions, photographers and creatives around the globe.

I view the erotic as an acute sense of aliveness and a creative life force that is not innately sexual. A quintessential core energy that can be used to create art and infuse it with the synergetic inspiration of both the art model and artist. I’m drawn to the profoundness, immensity and truthfulness of the visceral emotional landscape excavated and turned flesh, skin and hair. Inner language metamorphosed into reverberant speaking bodyscapes. The architecture of the ecstatic soul. The embodiment of cacophonic emotionality.

As an art model and artist, I invite those who collaborate with me to sit with the nude body, the persona thereof, in the space and their craft, to be present with one another and attentive, to respond to the inner workings of what the nude body brings forth, to feel it, all of it and listen to what it has to say and move with it. You draw what you feel. You create what moves you. You respond to yourself as you observe. You see what you feel and think. Alchemise it all into art.

I can be booked as an art model online and in person for 1:1 private life drawing sessions, life drawing groups, photography sessions, as a drawing teacher on how to collaborate with an art model and draw the figure in your own liberated way, performance art projects and academic drawing classes in cultural institutions.

Photo reference sets are available tailored specifically to what compels the individual artist to draw and what they are inspired by. Beginners, intermediate, advanced and professional creatives are all welcome.

If you would love to work with me please get in touch with me describing your idea. I would love to hear from you.

Book a session with me: croquemelpomene@gmail.com

Or via Instagram DM: croque_melpomene

Hourly rate: 100€

10 photo reference set: 100€

Languages: English, German, Luxembourgish, French and Italian