Brill Sketching

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.

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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A sketch and watercolour of Tadmarton Church

On a Bank Holiday weekend I like to get away from the crowds if possible and a good way to do this is to go out into the country. Northern Oxfordshire has some great pubs and countryside but is also relatively undiscovered – unlike Oxford city centre. One of our favourite pubs in this part […]

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Back in Turville

My last post was about my sketching travels during the south Oxfordshire Artweeks – and visiting Watlington and Turville. Here’s a photo of a view of the small green and the church at Turville – note the rain clouds about to add another downpour… I did a drawing of this view sitting in my deckchair […]

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A view of St John’s, Cirencester

Cirencester is about an hour’s drive from Oxford, so a bit of a trek but usually worth it. Over the years I’ve visited several times and have done a few sketches and watercolours of the town, but now looking through my previous posts I don’t seem to have posted any of them. So here is […]

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