Category: Churches, chapels and cathedrals

Drawing Fulbrook Church

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Fulbrook is a village in West Oxfordshire, a few miles NE of Burford. The village is mentioned in the Doomsday book and has a small Norman church tucked away just off the main road. The church is therefore easy to miss, especially if like most people you are travelling on the relatively straight road to […]

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Swinbrook Church

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Here is one of my older watercolours – of St. Mary’s Church in the small village of Swinbrook. Swinbrook is in a small river valley a few miles to the east of Burford. The church itself isn’t that inspiring from the outside, though its setting on raised ground in the village is interesting – and […]

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A watercolour sketch of Ewelme Church

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Leading a quiet life for awhile.. but intending to do a more ambitious drawing and painting of the church and almshouses at Ewelme. in the meantime here is a watercolour sketch of the church, with the almshouses to the right And here is a photo of this rather lovely church – for comparison

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Sketching the Almshouses at Ewelme

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A nice day today and with the easing of our lockdown restrictions I’ve been aiming to get out a bit more – so off out to the village of Ewelme in southern Oxfordshire. The church at Ewelme is one of my favourites, but today I’ve focused more on the adjacent almshouses – partly because of […]

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The finished painting of Hampton Gay Church

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Here is my finished – or near-finished – watercolour of the church at Hampton Gay. Basically the last stages of this painting are to add some texture to the walls, more detail and contrast to the greenery and to add a few other odd details, like shadows in the porch.Here I’ve left the porch deliberately […]

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