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 […]
Over the past few days I’ve been doing some sketching around around the north of the city centre, mostly around what could loosely be called ‘the student quarter’ – otherwise known as little Clarendon Street. In amongst the bars and eateries there are some interesting shops – and one of these is ‘The Last Bookshop’ […]
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 […]
The Cowley Road in east Oxford turns out to be one of the more rewarding places for me to sketch and I’ve done a few posts from this busy and jumbled road (thumbnails and links at the end). My latest is a view of the Baptist centre which I think also doubles as an arts […]
On a day of some sunshine and big showers I set off to explore some of the Artweeks events in Southern Oxfordshire. For me, this is largely a matter of trying to be more organized, as with dozens of different exhibitions in different parts of the county at different times it is easy to miss […]