The Old School and Parish Clerk’s House, Yarnton.

The village is just to the north of Oxford and about 1/2 mile outside the A34 bypass. It has a Historic Village sign outside the old turnpike and there is some history, though you might not know it from passing by on the main road to or from nearby Woodstock. In a previous post I […]

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Sketching Black Horse House in Watlington, Oxfordshire

Back in May I was visiting our local Artweeks events in Watlington, a small town at the foot of the Ridgeway hills in southern Oxfordshire. While there I decided to also do a small sketch of one of the many characterful local houses – in this case a former pub – Black Horse House- with […]

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More sketching in Brill

Yesterday I went back to Brill in western Buckinghamshire for another late lunch and to sit and do a little more sketching. My last post was about sketching the church here- and some of those Brill chimneys. On this trip, in the late afternoon sunshine I did some more house and chimney sketching to complete […]

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Sketching in Blewbury

Blewbury is a village at the foot of the Berkshire downs in southern Oxfordshire. This is an area of rolling countryside still relatively untouched by the sprawl of new housing estates encroaching from the north. Blewbury has some lovely old buildings and is well worth a visit. It also has a rather fine church green […]

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A Drawing of Dover House in Northleach

Northleach is a historic Cotswolds market town in Gloucestershire. It is mainly known for its impressive church, its small market and many fine Cotswold limestone houses. There are also a few surviving half-timbered buildings – one of which is the subject of one of my earlier watercolour drawings – The Tudor House on the Green, […]

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