The old ‘Liaison’ takeaway on Castle Street has perhaps seen better days but must have some sort of preservation order on it. Otherwise it would have been swallowed up in a complex of flats being built on the corner of Paradise Street and Castle Street. You might recognize this from previous posts but with the […]
Gees restaurant in north Oxford has recently been enlarged and redecorated. After months of being closed for building work, the hoardings came down and the finishing touches were added before the restaurant re-opened. I’ve drawn Gees before without actually finishing a drawing, so one balmy summer evening I set up to try to actually finish […]
It has been a showery week but in the sunnier intervals I’ve been around Oxford some more and have completed several new sketches. A couple of days ago I managed to get into the city relatively early and drew some of the shops that front Broad Street – a mix of old buildings with colourful […]
This week I visited the old market town of Banbury and took the opportunity to do a bit of drawing in between the summer showers. Banbury is a strange place. It feels like a town that had its heyday in the late 19th century with some fine old buildings, many of which now seem to […]
I’ve been meaning to get out and do some more sketching for a while. After visiting a couple of local ‘Artweeks’ events I decided to travel over to the nearby village of Eynsham. This is just a few miles west of Oxford and seems to have quite an active arts group –Eynsham Arts Group– which […]