A tale of two sketches – Catte Street, Oxford

Catte Street runs from Broad Street, past the Radcliffe Camera to Oxford High Street and is arguably one of the most scenic roads in Oxford. Like a lot of Oxford, it’s somewhere I’ve sketched before but, when eating at the Quod restaurant on the High Street a couple of weeks ago, I realised that they […]

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Back to The George Hotel, Dorchester on Thames

Dorchester on Thames is a historic place, full of old buildings. It is also a place I’ve been to and sketched a few times. So during a brief sunny interlude in an otherwise quite gloomy November, I set up to sketch the buildings around The George Hotel. With the clocks having changed and the days […]

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Three views of The Tudor House, Northleach

With the seasons changing it is good to get out on the nicer, sunnier days. For me that meant a trip out to Northleach on the eastern fringes of Gloucestershire. Northleach is one of the old ‘wool towns’ of the Cotswolds. most known for its large wool church, although it has many other old houses […]

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Sketching on the corner of Catte Street and Broad Street, Oxford

In the summertime and particularly on a weekend, Oxford can be a busy place. Making the trip in on a Sunday and cycling along Broad Street it is really noticeable that the tourist season is upon us – especially when you have three or four coach parties in the same place at the same time. […]

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Back to East Hagbourne

Earlier this week I managed an afternoon’s sketching back in the village of East Hagbourne. This is somewhere that I’ve sketched several times before as well as it being a nice place to be. Passing through Didcot, I stopped by the local Aldi supermarket to buy various lunchtime snacks. Then a quick decision – whether […]

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