Brasenose College Old Quad and the Radcliffe Camera

January 13, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A watercolour sketch of a famous view – of Brasenose College’s Old Quad with the dome of the Radcliffe Camera behind.

The fishing boat LN8 ‘Blucher’ at Wells-next-the-Sea

January 3, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

One of my watercolour sketches of the quay and boats out along the river at the North Norfolk town of Well-next-the-Sea. Wells is a pretty place, if a little over-run by tourists in the summer-time. Despite this it is still a charming place with its miniature railway, the ebb and flow of the tides and […]

The Eastgate Hotel, High Street, Oxford

January 3, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

The Eastgate Hotel, Oxford One of my more experimental watercolours, this is a view of one of Oxford’s old coaching inns – the Eastgate Hotel on the High Street. Originally a 17th c. Hotel at the former Eastern city gate, the hotel is now owned by the Mercure group and now houses an Italian restaurant […]

A boat at St. Ives, Cornwall

January 2, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Another watercolour of one of the fishing boats in St. Ives harbour at low tide. This is a painting to remind me of a brilliant sunny day wandering around the beach before a breakfast in one of the near-by cafes.

A study for ‘Oxford Morning’

January 1, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

This was a study done whilst working up ideas for my watercolour painting seen elsewhere on this blog as ‘Oxford Morning’ This is the view looking south from the corner of Broad Street and Catte Street in the center of Oxford and is just around the corner from the Hertford College ‘Bridge of Sighs’. Incidentally […]