References for Hortic Gymnos

Martin Cosgrove, Fine Artist

Group life drawing session

Hortic Gymnos prepared well for the session and communications were excellent throughout.

He is able to hold a pose for up to 20 minutes without moving and is able to come up with a variety of interesting positions to stand or sit in, so that others can draw. His personal interest in drawing is reflected in his expressive poses.

From the point of view of physique, I suspect that most men would love to have a body as well built and toned as he has.

Great model, lovely man and highly recommended.

Martin Cosgrove

KeithGillsonPhotography

Had a great shoot with Phil yesterday on location.

Pre-comms were excellent and he arrived raring to go! He bought a range of outfits and props as previously discussed. He had his own ideas and was also able to take direction, a combination that resulted in some great images.

Conversation throughout the shoot was non-stop, over a range of subjects, and this allowed us to almost forget about the shoot and allowed me to take some great, candid shots that could easily be called ' A conversation with ...'

We have already discussed the idea of another shoot and I look forward to that in, hopefully, the not too distant future.

Thank you Phil.

Jack Tranter Photography

Great first creative shoot with Phill, had a wonderful time and got some amazing photographs of him in his dinner suit, highly recommend

RayBann

A real pleasure to meet Phil for our first shoot. Our pre-shoot chat indicated that he is very professional, with a wealth of life experiences that he brings to modelling. Phil understood the ideas behind the project, through which we were able to negotiate the ideas practically through our joint inputs. The resulting images are outstanding because of his participation; never has it been so difficult for me to sort through such an enormous number of successful images. Thank you Phil, I know we'll work together again to push the ideas forward.

Shauna’s photography

Had my first photoshoot with Phillip today, such a wonderful guy and plenty of ideas , made me feel at ease and very polite, easy to talk to , the sun was out as well x

Luminite Dave

Worked with Phil inbetween lockdowns, and what a pleasre it was.

Even though he is new to this he took direction well, came up with some ofhis ideas and was happy to go with the flow and see where we ended up. A nice chilled shoot with nice chilled bloke, an dwe got some great headshots & portraits out of it. Highly recommend, (y)

bengie

Worked with solid a number of years ago he is a really nice guy and a very good model and he will do any shots you ask him to do,so i hope some of you photographers out there will give him ago you wont be disappointed.

...bengie...

Yorkshire Life

Taking the photographer role is still pretty new to me as normally the model but we had a 2 hour studio shoot this morning. Solid123 was punctual, came armed with some props which were used beyond our wildest expectations and was very proactive during the process - a great start for a novice photographer like me and a great model to work with - thank you!