Sketching the ‘Tudor House’ at East Hagbourne

June 2, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

East Hagbourne is a village just to the south of Didcot in southern Oxfordshire. It is a charming place with a whole array of old houses around its centre. Many of these are timber framed and some are thatched. There is also a good pub and an interesting church but my focus on my last […]

Sitting in the John Lewis Cafe on a rainy day – and sketching the Westgate Centre, Oxford.

April 29, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

It seems to have rained almost every day for three months now. As an urban sketcher- or pretty much any kind of outdoor sketcher – this kind of cramps your style and limits what you can or might want to sketch. One solution is to find a nice cafe, get a beverage of some sort […]

Sketching houses on London Street, Faringdon

April 7, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

In the past I’ve drawn several sketches of Faringdon in West Oxfordshire and about a month ago ventured out again to draw parts of the town’s London Street. Coming down the hill into the town the road is lined with a mixture of houses that have largely been left relatively un-redeveloped. After finding somewhere to […]

The Old School and Parish Clerk’s House, Yarnton.

March 1, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

The village is just to the north of Oxford and about 1/2 mile outside the A34 bypass. It has a Historic Village sign outside the old turnpike and there is some history, though you might not know it from passing by on the main road to or from nearby Woodstock. In a previous post I […]

From a big barn to a ruined barn – sketching outside of Oxford

February 26, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

Last week I was out drawing the big ‘Oxford North’ building site with its proposed ‘Big Red barn’, offices, housing and attendant building cranes. This week as a change I decided to draw something a little smaller – a ruinous shed or barn I saw passing by to the nearby village of Yarnton. This was […]

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