Blewbury is a village in southern Oxfordshire. It is about a mile or so north of the Ridgeway, has quite a few thatched cottages and has largely survived the ravages of development elsewhere. Away from the busy main road, you can walk around relatively quiet lanes and walkways, perhaps taking in the clear water streams […]
On the shortest day of the year the sun decided that it was going to come out and the rain stopped for a while. Well, we don’t get that many good days this time of year so I decided to skip the consumerist frenzy that is Christmas shopping for the day and go out to […]
Occasionally I will come across the odd sketcher around Oxford – but not very often. So it was a pleasant surprise to come across a whole group of Urban Sketchers in the Oxford Covered market a couple of weeks ago. I decided to join them on their next outing – at the Oxford Christmas Market. […]
Catte Street runs from Broad Street, past the Radcliffe Camera to Oxford High Street and is arguably one of the most scenic roads in Oxford. Like a lot of Oxford, it’s somewhere I’ve sketched before but, when eating at the Quod restaurant on the High Street a couple of weeks ago, I realised that they […]
It seems to have rained almost every day for three months now. As an urban sketcher- or pretty much any kind of outdoor sketcher – this kind of cramps your style and limits what you can or might want to sketch. One solution is to find a nice cafe, get a beverage of some sort […]