A sketch and watercolour of Tadmarton Church

On a Bank Holiday weekend I like to get away from the crowds if possible and a good way to do this is to go out into the country. Northern Oxfordshire has some great pubs and countryside but is also relatively undiscovered – unlike Oxford city centre. One of our favourite pubs in this part […]

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The Cowley Road Baptist Centre, East Oxford

The Cowley Road in east Oxford turns out to be one of the more rewarding places for me to sketch and I’ve done a few posts from this busy and jumbled road (thumbnails and links at the end). My latest is a view of the Baptist centre which I think also doubles as an arts […]

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A view of St John’s, Cirencester

Cirencester is about an hour’s drive from Oxford, so a bit of a trek but usually worth it. Over the years I’ve visited several times and have done a few sketches and watercolours of the town, but now looking through my previous posts I don’t seem to have posted any of them. So here is […]

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Sketching in Oxford

Sometimes on a weekend I’ll go into Oxford to do a little sketching. Depending on how busy the city is at any particular time, it is quite nice to just do some sketching for relaxation. A subject I keep returning to in Oxford is the Sheldonian Theatre. Here I am sketching from outside the Sheldonian […]

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Sketching Northleach

After a short holiday in Ghent, Belgium I’ve been trying to get out more – starting to revisit various Cotswold’s towns and places. Northleach is a town I’ve visited on the way and done some sketching in. It is a old market town, that has a big ‘wool’ church and most of the town built […]

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