#Time2Sketch 2025 Winners
Event date:
10 December 2025
12:00 - 13:00
Cost:
£10 - 50
#Time2Sketch2025 Winners
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s #Time2Sketch competition!
The theme of “Shelter” inspired some truly remarkable interpretations, and your creativity and passion blew us away.
We’re thrilled to present our talented winners:
A complex, well-proportioned drawing that offers a thoughtful interpretation of shelter within a contemporary setting. The composition places people beneath a vast mechanical canopy, creating a striking contrast between human scale and structural form. The piece captures shelter not only as a place of physical safety but also as a shared social experience.
A beautifully crafted piece that presents shelter through nature, tranquility, and human connection to place. The delicacy of the line work, combined with careful balance of foreground and landscape, gives the drawing a peaceful clarity and harmonious composition that draws you in. It conveys a quiet refuge away from noise and urgency, showing how shelter can be found in solitude, in nature, and in spaces that offer pause.
This drawing offers a profound interpretation of shelter as an emotional and psychological space. The central figure is surrounded by protective gestures that create a quiet moment of inner refuge. The careful balance of symbolism and expressive line work gives the piece a strong narrative presence, drawing the viewer into the subject’s inner world. It shows shelter as something created through care, empathy, and connection.
Thank you to all participants, judges, and supporters for making this event a huge success. Together, we raised critical funds for ABS to support the architectural community.
Please see other shortlisted entries below. Congratulations!
About
#Time2Sketch is a national drawing competition designed to give participants a creative break and support the architectural community. Participants have one hour to draw around a set theme, which will be announced at 12pm on Wednesday, December 10th 2025.
Our expert judges will review all entries, with stand-out drawings earning a spot in the #Time2Sketch online gallery.
To make things more interesting and fun, you can participate individually or as part of a team with your colleagues!
Why Participate?
#Time2Sketch encourages practices and organisations to create a space for people to come together and sketch. Sketching is a powerful tool for lowering stress levels and promoting relaxation. This “feel good fun” activity is not only beneficial for wellbeing, but also plays a fundamental role in raising funds for ABS.
Supporting ABS through fundraising and donations is essential for us to keep offering critical assistance. Your generosity helps individuals rebuild their lives during times of redundancy, financial difficulties, health issues, or other crises. Become part of our amazing community of fundraisers and make a positive impact today.
Share Your Work
We’d love to see your sketches! Share your work on Instagram, LinkedIn, or X using the hashtag #Time2Sketch2025 and tag @ArchBenSoc. Show us how you, your practice, or your organisation is getting involved!
Join us for #Time2Sketch and experience the joy of drawing while supporting a great cause. Ready, set, sketch!
Meet the Judges
We are thrilled to introduce the esteemed panel of judges for this year’s competition. They bring a wealth of experience and a keen eye for creativity and innovation in the architectural and artistic realms. Each judge has a unique perspective and a deep appreciation for the art of sketching, ensuring that every submission will be thoughtfully evaluated. Their combined expertise will help us identify the most imaginative and creative sketches, awarding prizes to the top three entries. Get ready to impress these incredible judges with your artistic talent!
Tanatswa Borerwe is an Architect at HTA Design and Illustrator, whose work bridges social architecture and visual storytelling. Her practice focuses on community-led housing and regeneration, using drawing as a tool to engage residents and communicate complex design ideas. Passionate about inclusivity and cultural identity, Tanatswa explores how architecture can reflect everyday lived experiences. She has contributed to outreach initiatives such as Black Females in Architecture and Drawing Matter, and her sketches have been featured in AJ Sketchbook and Archisource. Through her work, she continues to champion creativity, empathy, and representation in the built environment.
2024 #Time2Sketch winner Paul Bowman is a Chartered Architect, Fellow of the Royal Society of Art and founder of Designsplus Architects, a practice focused on low-carbon interventions within existing buildings. He thrives on solving complex retrofit challenges, using sketches and drawings to engage clients and communicate intricate design ideas. Passionate about hand drawing since childhood, Paul believes sketches bring warmth, authenticity, and human connection, qualities often missing from polished digital renderings. His dedication to the craft has earned him several drawing awards, widespread publication, and even a feature on the cover of Architects’ Journal.
Judge, #Time2Sketch originator and Architectural Technologist, David Gilhooley holds the World Record for Sketch Portraits, won Channel 5’s ‘Watercolour Challenge’ Yorkshire Region and is Head Judge for Yorks Society of Architects Denis Mason Jones Award for Architectural Sketching.
