In the summertime and particularly on a weekend, Oxford can be a busy place. Making the trip in on a Sunday and cycling along Broad Street it is really noticeable that the tourist season is upon us – especially when you have three or four coach parties in the same place at the same time. […]
Earlier this week I managed an afternoon’s sketching back in the village of East Hagbourne. This is somewhere that I’ve sketched several times before as well as it being a nice place to be. Passing through Didcot, I stopped by the local Aldi supermarket to buy various lunchtime snacks. Then a quick decision – whether […]
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 […]
Its been a while ago since my last holiday in Alicante, Spain. While there i managed to do a couple of my favourite things; sketching from around the castle hillside and drawing the Old Town. Here is one of my sketches – a view from the Santa Cruz church and the old town, towards the […]
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 […]