Baptistery skyline, Pisa

I have been looking back at past holiday photographs, in this case from Pisa in Italy. One of my favourite subjects from this historic City is the Baptistery of San Giovanni in the famous Piazza dei Mirocoli. I have done various other drawings and watercolours around Pisa in the past but this is my latest […]

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A view of Christ Church College from St. Aldates

A couple of months ago I was out doing some drawings around Christ Church College. These feature in previous posts as drawings of ‘The Meadows’ and of Christ Church from St. Aldates. Here is my is my update on this ‘classic’ view from the road at St. Aldates. This is now also a print available […]

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Drawing Rousham

This weekend with the weather improving I took a ride out down country lanes to Rousham House in North Oxfordshire. I wasn’t specifically going to visit to house and gardens themselves but to visit the adjacent (12th C) church with its clipped Yew trees. I also found a different view of the house and stables […]

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Sketching Cholsey

On a recent day of sunny and warmish weather I ventured out to explore the South Oxfordshire countryside and the possibility of sketching something. This post is about my sketch of the village of Cholsey, which is about 10 miles south of Oxford. The area around Cholsey lies on slightly raised ground between the Thames […]

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More watercolour studies of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford

In recent posts I’ve been setting out to draw the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford. This post is an update on that. Here is my previous drawing with the addition of some basic watercolour washes – still very much a ‘study’ or a work in progress. I’ll include here also an example of a bit of […]

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