A view of Christ Church College from St. Aldates

A couple of months ago I was out doing some drawings around Christ Church College. These feature in previous posts as drawings of ‘The Meadows’ and of Christ Church from St. Aldates. Here is my is my update on this ‘classic’ view from the road at St. Aldates. This is now also a print available […]

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Drawing Rousham

This weekend with the weather improving I took a ride out down country lanes to Rousham House in North Oxfordshire. I wasn’t specifically going to visit to house and gardens themselves but to visit the adjacent (12th C) church with its clipped Yew trees. I also found a different view of the house and stables […]

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Cromlech House, Mortehoe

Those of you that had a look at my recent posts will have seen my drawing (above) and subsequent watercolour of the row of houses on the Esplanade in Mortehoe on the north Devon coast. The watercolour of this drawing is really just a first attempt, and in this case I decided to try a […]

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The Esplanade at Mortehoe, Devon

I have been looking over some photographs of past holidays, you know the sort of thing, when you could actually go out and – gasp! – go on holiday. I have a few favourite views and one of them is of a row of shops and houses at the hilltop village of Mortehoe on the […]

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Sketching Cholsey

On a recent day of sunny and warmish weather I ventured out to explore the South Oxfordshire countryside and the possibility of sketching something. This post is about my sketch of the village of Cholsey, which is about 10 miles south of Oxford. The area around Cholsey lies on slightly raised ground between the Thames […]

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