Blog Archive 2005 - 2015

Wash drawing

Wash drawing

This is a small wash drawing done on the nearby River Ock. I used it today as  the starting point for these small paintings, which I sent as birthday cards for my sister and mum. It's amazing how a small drawing can be used for quite different interpretations. I had...

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Drawing by the Cherwell

Drawing by the Cherwell

Drew this on the River Cherwell by Addison's walk in the grounds of Magdalen College, Oxford. I hadn't drawn there for a long time. It has been cleaned up but still retains the green freshness of spring at this time of year when colour floats; when white blossom...

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Sketchbook studies

Sketchbook studies

        I made these two sketchbook drawings to help me compose the two "spring garden" paintings. They are worked from photos and memory of the place, which is the garden/orchard behind the Art department as seen from the painting studio. There is an interesting...

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