Category: Buildings

Brill Sketching

.Reading time 4 minutes.

The village of Brill in west Buckinghamshire is a bit of an oddity. It is a little bit off the beaten path, sited on a big hill some seven miles south of Bicester and it seems to have a other-worldly charm to it. The houses and building mostly seem to date from the 17th C. […]

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Learning from experience? Drawing St. Mary’s Church at Ashbury.

.Reading time 2 minutes.

Here in Oxfordshire we’ve been waiting for the summer proper to arrive. With high pressure over the North Sea and winds from the northeast we’ve been having a lot of cloudy mornings – not good for drawing. However yesterday the Sun came out a little earlier and it was like a proper summer’s day for […]

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Drawing the Wild Honey Wholefoods Shop on Little Clarendon Street, Oxford

.Reading time 1 minute.

Little Clarendon Street is just north of the city centre in Oxford. Its a street of eateries, cafe’s and bars and a few other shops set amongst various University buildings. Rather than indulge in the cafe society my interest was instead in drawing the Wild Honey Wholefoods shop. Here is a view of the shop-front. […]

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Drawing The Last Bookshop, Oxford

.Reading time 1 minute.

Over the past few days I’ve been doing some sketching around around the north of the city centre, mostly around what could loosely be called ‘the student quarter’ – otherwise known as little Clarendon Street. In amongst the bars and eateries there are some interesting shops – and one of these is ‘The Last Bookshop’ […]

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The Fox & Hounds Pub at Christmas Common

.Reading time 2 minutes.

Last week I was in southern Oxfordshire and straying into Buckinghamshire to visit the village of Turville during the south Oxfordshire Artweeks. For me having the Artweeks events on was an extra bonus as there is some very nice countryside around this area. There are a few pubs too and after visiting Turville and doing […]

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