087 Magdalen Bridge Boats

  087 Magdalen Bridge Boats Here is a painting of some of the punts, pedalos and rowing boats plus Boathouse crew at the Magdalen College Bridge in Oxford. A good spot for a bit of boating mayhem.    

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060 Catte Street, Oxford

Another Oxford ‘street scene’ – This is a view down Catte Street from besides St Mary’s Church, with the Radcliffe Camera and Bodleian Library in the distance. Catte Street was also known as “Mousecatcher’s Lane” as far back as the 15th century. For me this is quite an evocative place – when you think of […]

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076 A view over Vernazza

Here is one of my paintings taken from a trip to the marvelous Cinque Terre  ( or ‘Five Earths’ ) area on the NW coast of Italy. It shows a view over one of the old fishing towns set on the rocky coast here. This is the view from the coastal path above the village […]

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The Pret at Cornmarket in Oxford

  Here is another of my watercolours ; The Pret at the Corner of Cornmarket and Ship Street.  Like a lot of old buildings , part of its charm is the way it is all slightly askew.. This is one of my views of this historic building in the heart of Oxford at 26 – […]

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The Statue of the Madonna Della Stellario in Lucca, Tuscany

The Statue of the Madonna Della Stellario in Lucca, Tuscany. This is my watercolour of this statue of the Madonna -Not one of the more usual tourist haunts but just a short distance from the amphitheater. Sited at the junction of five roads within the NE of the city. Well worth a visit – with […]

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