Starting to paint Gee’s restaurant, Oxford

November 27, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Gee’s restaurant is set amongst the well-to-do Victorian houses on the Banbury Road in North Oxford. It occupies what was once a greenhouse and conservatory, built at the end of the 18th century as a sort of forerunner of our modern garden-centres. Back in the balmy days of summer I spent an hour or so […]

Drawing the Skoda Garage

November 25, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

In the summer when I took the opportunity to go out and do some sketching I settled on our local Skoda garage, With urban sketching you don’t always end up drawing what you expect but that is probably part of its charm, where drawing and observation prompt you to draw things you might not have […]

A collection of canal boats

November 21, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

As the season quietens down I thought I’d gather up a few of my studies and sketches of narrow-boats from along the Oxford canal…

St. Mary’s church, Adderbury

November 20, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Here is one of my slightly older watercolours – it is of St Mary’s Church in Adderbury. This is an imposing church, one of the largest in northern Oxfordshire and features an ornate Lady Chapel built in the perpendicular style. Like a lot of country churches it is a little off the main roads but […]

Urban sketching – a drawing of shops at Temple Cowley

November 11, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

I thought I’d put up something a little different today – a bit of urban sketching from around Oxford. This is a view of what may be taken as unprepossessing shops on Between Towns Road at Temple Cowley, Oxford. A couple of the aspects that I like from this view that I like are the […]

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