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On the shortest day of the year the sun decided that it was going to come out and the rain stopped for a while. Well, we don’t get that many good days this time of year so I decided to skip the consumerist frenzy that is Christmas shopping for the day and go out to […]
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When I’m out doing some urban sketching it is sometimes useful to find somewhere to sit. So on one of my Sunday sketching trips into Oxford I settled for a spot of cafe sketching. This is a view of our local art supplies shop – Broad Canvas – and it also takes in a cafe […]
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Bath Street is a small side street in an area known as St. Clements – just to the east of the Oxford city centre. There’s a main road lined with a collection of pubs, eateries, fast food places and a few little shops. There is also a lot of student accommodation in the area and […]
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East Hagbourne in southern Oxfordshire is a good example of an unspoiled village, though its residents are possibly looking over their shoulders at the encroaching town sprawl of Didcot just to the north. The village has a decent pub, an old church, a tiny shop, two memorial crosses and a host of charming vernacular houses. […]
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After a day of rain the skies brightened, the clouds parted and it turned into a nice summer’s evening. So – time to get the bike out and go for a ride; this time over to Stonesfield which is about ten miles west of Oxford. This is somewhere I’ve been sketching before as the village […]
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