Triumph bonneville 750

This is my drawing and watercolour of a rather lovely restored Triumph Bonneville motorcycle that I came across a while ago parked up in Oxford. It is part of a series of ‘line and wash’ illustrative style drawings and paintings that I’ve been doing – and if you take a browse elsewhere on this site […]

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Drawing the Sheldonian again

A couple of days ago I took the opportunity to go back and draw the Sheldonian Theatre again. I sat out on the steps of the Weston Library opposite and just took the time to do a more ‘nitty-gritty’ drawing, while the streets are still relatively quiet. Here is the result… And a view of […]

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A study of a one of the carved heads decorating the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

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 […]

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A new drawing of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

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 […]

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