Botley Road Cranes

December 12, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

With the weather closing down as we head towards the winter solstice it becomes harder to go out and do some sketching. Perhaps I should just toughen up – more layers, more hats and scarfs – that sort of thing. Or I could just indulge in some more sketching from a car. This is not […]

Sketching the Fish & Chip shop, Iffley Road, Oxford

January 4, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

I am guessing that most posts about watercolouring or sketching are about picturesque things: landscapes, Sunsets etc. but if you are into urban sketching then that is not always the case. So here is a more off-beat sketch from my travels around Oxford. After cycling along the river to the south of the city, I […]

The old Liaison and Paradise Street flats – works in progress

February 12, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

When the weather is cold and grey or it is raining, one of my favourite spots to draw in Oxford is from the Central Library. Back when the pandemic was raging, the library was also something of a haven from the crowds outside. These days it seems that things are pretty much back to ‘normal’ […]

The Soho Bar, Alicante

November 7, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Here is something a bit different from me – it’s a painting of the Soho Bar in Alicante. The bar consists of a small rotunda kiosk with surrounding decking and wicker chairs – all beneath the shade of one of the large trees growing around the city parks. It is a great place for a […]

A sketch of the Waterstones Building in Oxford

February 24, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hello everybody. Not posting for a while but feeling a little more inspired than of late … the typical “will it stop raining?” but perhaps getting a little more hopeful that it will. This is one of my pencil drawings of the building housing Waterstones in Oxford – also tweeting a watercolour version of this […]

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