Exploring of the villages along the foot of the Ridgeway in southern Oxfordshire and Wiltshire escarpment. I posted a drawing of cottages in the village of Bishopstone a couple of days ago and here is that drawing as a watercolour sketch.
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 […]
Outside the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, the walls are decorated by a series of carved heads. These are the third generation of stone heads here and they are sometimes known as ‘the Sheldonian Emperors’, although they could just as well represent philosophers.. Some of the present generation of heads generally has a startled or even […]
A couple of days ago I posted a new drawing of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford – and said I’d post when the watercolour was finished – so here it is! Here is another view – this is on A3 size watercolour paper – I hope you like it.
Lately I’ve been trying to work up a series of drawings of Broad Street in Oxford. Before the Lockdown I had done a series of sketches back in the cold of January and February and hope to turn these into panoramic views of this area in the not-too-distant future. Here is my latest – a […]