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The Gurkha Village is a local Nepalese restaurant. It is next to a busy main road but I thought I’d take my sketching stuff and sit there while the rush hour traffic cruised by, do some drawing and maybe provide some entertainment to people on the way home. Here is my view.. .. my sketch […]
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In the summertime and particularly on a weekend, Oxford can be a busy place. Making the trip in on a Sunday and cycling along Broad Street it is really noticeable that the tourist season is upon us – especially when you have three or four coach parties in the same place at the same time. […]
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On a Sunday afternoon I took a trip out to the village of Bishopstone which lies just over the border from Oxfordshire into Wiltshire. This is one of a string of villages along the northern slopes of the Ridgeway set in some pretty special countryside. My trip was specifically to draw one of Bishopstone’s picturesque […]
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East Hagbourne is a village just to the south of Didcot in southern Oxfordshire. It is a charming place with a whole array of old houses around its centre. Many of these are timber framed and some are thatched. There is also a good pub and an interesting church but my focus on my last […]
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Sometimes you just fancy a bit of sketching – and fairly local to me in North Oxford there is our Skoda car sales showroom. It is a building that an urban sketcher might take an interest in with its distinctive modern roof. So, finding a convenient bench, I sat down and started drawing. it was […]
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