The Oxford University Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum in Oxford has recently re-opened after being closed for a while – so I thought I’d post my painting of this fine building. If you’d like to know more they have a twitter account. The Museum building was started in the mid 19th century, initially to house natural history specimens moved […]

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The County Hall in Abingdon

Here’s a different view of the rather impressive County Hall in Abingdon. For me this is a different style: a line drawing with solid blocks of colour infilling.

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Abingdon Bridge Street

This is my take on the view of Abingdon town center from Bridge Street, with the top of the County Hall in the background. Not too sure about including the cars – but I think they turned out alright. Abingdon is about 5 miles south of Oxford and has a nice mixture of vernacular architecture, […]

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Alicante Streetscene

Experimenting here with some urban sketching and watercolour. This is a view of the road into Alicante from the eastern coastline. From an afternoon out sketching near the old marina railway station on the eastern side of town – if you look though you’ll also find my earlier watercolour of the old station too, or […]

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