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 […]

Alicante Streetscene

December 21, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Experimenting here with some urban sketching and watercolour. This is a view of the road into Alicante from the eastern coastline. From an afternoon out sketching near the old marina railway station on the eastern side of town – if you look though you’ll also find my earlier watercolour of the old station too, or […]

In the City – a view down Lombard Street, London

November 29, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

An urban landscape – this one a sketchy watercolour of the view along Lombard Street in the City of London. This one is from next to one of the entrances to Bank Station on the Tube. A lot to see in this area, with a mixture of financial institutions, historic churches, modern architecture and a […]

On the corner of Ship Street and Cornmarket, Oxford

November 7, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Another watercolour of a favorite subject – No.s 26 – 27 on the corner of Ship Street and Cornmarket in Oxford. This building has seen many changes. Now it houses a Pret and a currency Exchange, but it was originally built around 1386. The building is owned by Jesus College and was at one time […]

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