Climbing Charing Cross

Old friends will know I have more than just a passing obsession with the Eleanor Crosses, the memorials built by Edward I to his Queen Eleanor after she died in 1290. Last Thursday… Continue reading →

Royal Academy and The Harp, Covent Garden

Out and about in sunny London and trying out some different colour papers, using a mid tone to work light and dark onto. Its a method some of the old masters used to… Continue reading →

A tribute to Food

A little personal collection of pictures based on food, which seems to take up an increasingly bigger part of my life these days.  This is an illustration based on sketches of butchers in… Continue reading →

More Paris

A second selection! I have this lovely concertina-page sketchbook, that folds out so you can keep on drawing as far as you want, but it can make me quite ambitious about getting a… Continue reading →

Printemps

Just back from Paris, a brief selection of drawings out and about. Warm weather, lots of squatting on the ground,  curious tourists peeping over my shoulder Sainte Marie is a beautiful baroque church… Continue reading →

The Soane Museum

One of the most magical and intimate museums in London. The architect Sir John Soane’s house, museum and library at No. 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields has been a public museum since the early… Continue reading →

Welcome

Welcome to my blog! Here begins a vague journal of a new (and overdue) ambition to do something with drawing. My website is almost complete, but meanwhile I hope that this will serve as a… Continue reading →