Some sketches from a family trip to France. Much rambling through streets, eating of bready things, drinking, when we weren’t sheltering from a heat wave or thunder and lightning. This is Kate squeezing in some last minute work on her laptop, our local church in Saint-Martin-d’Ablois in the Champagne region, locals at the village fete, Dad sampling bubbly in a very colourful B&B kitchen, another church at Epernay, scaffolding in on of the eastern chapels at Reims Cathedral, and finally Kate’s treat and my first taste of such a double concoction: Pain au Chocolat au Almonde. Heavy in weight and a wonderful not-quite-fully-baked consistency within.
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About thetownmouse
I’m Joanna Moore, a compulsive drawer and architectural historian. I studied Architecture and History of Art at university, and completed the postgraduate Drawing Year at the Prince’s Drawing School, where I won the Patron’s Prize. I have exhibited in Spitalfields, the Tea Building in Shoreditch, the Prince’s Drawing School, and Southwark Cathedral. All my work is produced, or developed, from drawings done from observation. I never use a camera, and work on site, whatever the weather. My prints and paintings are often re-worked from these original drawings, many monotypes are created on location.
When I’m not drawing, I can be found continuing to work for Prince’s Drawing School, teaching 10-14 year-olds drawing at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the Prince’s Drawing Clubs, cycling through the streets of London, baking, or winding down with a Gn’T and a cat on my lap. This blog is a personal diary of my ambition to draw and make, my work, travels and inspirations.
Why the town mouse? It seemed appropriate for how I feel scampering around my favourite city and drawing on street corners.
Some sketches from a family trip to France. Much rambling through streets, eating of bready things, drinking, when we weren’t sheltering from a heat wave or thunder and lightning. This is Kate squeezing in some last minute work on her laptop, our local church in Saint-Martin-d’Ablois in the Champagne region, locals at the village fete, Dad sampling bubbly in a very colourful B&B kitchen, another church at Epernay, scaffolding in on of the eastern chapels at Reims Cathedral, and finally Kate’s treat and my first taste of such a double concoction: Pain au Chocolat au Almonde. Heavy in weight and a wonderful not-quite-fully-baked consistency within.
I think you’ve taken a coupe of years off Peter!!!!!!!!!