A sketch of the Church of Santa Cruz, Alicante

June 20, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A quick sketch of the Church of Santa Cruz, high up in the old town in Alicante. A pleasant spot to spend an evening, with views of the church and the castle as well as the modern town and port.

The entrance to Broughton castle.

June 16, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Another of my watercolours – this an update on a painting of the entrance tower to Broughton Castle in northern Oxfordshire. Broughton Castle is the home of the Fiennes family and is a moated manor set in parkland a few miles from Banbury. Once a centre for intrigue against Charles I, the castle was captured […]

A sketch of Alicante Castle

June 14, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Back from holiday to a cloudy and damp England – so I’m posting one of my watercolour sketches of Alicante Castle – you can almost hear the cicades! Now where is that Pina Colada?

Arlington Row, Bibury – another watercolour sketch

May 23, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Bibury is a favourite with tourists visiting the Cotswolds and this row of workers cottages next to a water meadow and its clear water stream is definitely worth a visit. This is another of my watercolour studies of this row of picturesque cottages and is one of several attempts at improving my interpretation of this […]

Cornmarket Busker, Oxford

May 16, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Another of my Oxford Townscapes – this a view of a guitarist / singer outside of St. Michael’s on the Northgate, on Cornmarket Street, Oxford. Oxford gets some talented performers and Cornmarket is probably a prime spot, though the other day we had an opera singer outside of Marks and Sparks!