Paintings of the City and the Countryside

This is the Viaduct Tavern, which I photographed on my phone sitting on the top deck of a bus. This made the horizon line a bit higher than usual. I liked the cast shadows and strong contrasts of dark and light in the scene and had to go quite dark to bring out the white walls of the building.

This folly belongs to Wimpole Hall, a National Trust estate in Cambridgeshire near Royston. A folly is quite a romantic subject, which I tried to convey by using soft edges and heightened colour. 

Ludgate Hill

Ludgate Hill, watercolour (30cm x 40cm)

This painting is a result of my recent trip to London with Urban Sketchers London. I was sketching around the area of St Paul's but also took plenty of photos as reference material to paint this watercolour away from the subject.