Tag: Victorian architecture

  • Never Mind The Pollards

    Never Mind The Pollards

    Every spring I become obsessed with the pollarded (is that a verb?) Maple trees along my road, like weird alien antenna sticking out of stumps. I’ve drawn them before and they’ve appeared in the background of my works, but this spring I did a series of drawings and paintings of them. Like this fountain pen…

  • Bus Shelter Redux

    Bus Shelter Redux

    Just realised I missed a few of the Bus Shelter series that should have been in the previous post but they’re good enough to get their own post. Both graphitints, and from the wet springtime when I was sheltering in bus stops to have anywhere to work outside the flat. The first one is called…

  • Bus Shelter series

    Bus Shelter series

    Recently I have been increasingly drawing and painting the views from a bus shelter. It is a challenge as not many shelters are in picturesque places! I started doing this in 2019 and early 2020 just waiting for buses or hiding from the rain. This became rather more urgent and even poltiical in lockdown because…