Thornhill Gardens, Barnsbury, N1. On the cycling commute home. A bit rain splattered.

Gasenried, Valais, Switzerland.

The Matterhorn from Fluhalp, Switzerland.

Two drawings of Grächen, Switzerland, done from the same hotel balcony a few days apart.

Drawing the 1:500 scale model of the towers and streets of London at the London Centre creates the impression that you’re looking at the city from a helicopter or something.

The V&A East Storehouse, Hackney Wick. No pens are allowed in the archives, so I borrow a pencil from the team at the door. It’s a mind-blowing space, with a quarter of a million objects, shown like I’ve never seen stuff shown, and you never know quite what you’ll find next to what.

While clearing out the studio/office, it becomes obvious to me that I have, over time, experimented my way through quite a collection of pen brands. Happy new year. Thanks for following, if you do.

Distant shores of the River Ore, Suffolk, seen from the Maybush Inn, Waldringfield.

Market Hill, Woodbridge, Suffolk, from room 10 of the Bull Inn.

Fabrique cafe, Goodge Street, London. It was the end of the day, after work, and the cafe’s shelves were almost empty. I was the last one out.

Trees along the New River, Islington. It’s neither new nor a river, but built more than 400 years ago to bring fresh water to London from Hertfordshire. It’s ornamental in these lowest stretches.

The tea room at Portmeirion, Wales. It’s a mad place with its bizarre constructions, its eccentric layout, its Italianate Welshness, its touristic overload.

My work is featured in the Nov 2025 issue of Artists & Illustrators magazine, which is out now. My thanks to the editor, Niki Browes.

San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain: bathers at La Concha beach last June, with Monte Urgull beyond. It was such a great place to visit, particularly for its fantastic food, city beaches, and long summer evenings.

Getting off the train at Barmouth, Wales, you find yourself in the middle of an amusement park. The families with young kids took us back to our summer holidays from the past. After exploring the town we doze in a sheltered spot in the dunes and then head up for a walk in the hills behind the town.

Trees in leaf. Summer days in Clissold Park, north London.

La Flèche Saint-Michel, Bordeaux, from a cafe on Rue Gaspard Philippe. This drawing omits the reason for its name, la flèche (arrow), by editing out the spire, which was mostly encased in scaffolding anyway.

Two views from the spectacularly situated Mirador de Lallende bar at Bulnes, high in the Picos de Europa in northern Spain. It’s at the very end of the track, on a ledge, after a drive, a subterranean funicular ride and a trek. #Bulnes

Finsbury Circus Gardens, London EC2, recently reopened after being closed for about a decade while the Elizabeth line was built.

The view from the cafe table where we ate lunch in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. Just a glimpse of the gently rising street between the buildings. Enough.

The view from room 202 at Posada de la Abadia, Santillana del Mar, Cantabria, northern Spain.

Barnsbury Square Gardens, Islington, London N1. #Islington

Exeter St David’s railway station as seen from the Premier Inn across the road. I’ve passed through this station so many times over the years. #Exeter

Two drawings from last weekend’s USk London gathering at St Pancras, one of the still unfinished Google “landscraper” HQ that stretches from King’s Cross station all the way to Granary Square, and the second of the St Pancras station as seen from the British Library piazza. #StPancras

Views from the train on the way home from a quick visit to Cornwall for a funeral. It’s late afternoon, the carriage is almost empty and the train is flying along. There’s occasional laughter from the end of the carriage.

I’ve written about me and my sketchbooks for the Jackson’s Art Supplies blog as part of its Inside the Sketchbook series. Find it here: www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2025/05... #Sketchbooks

The view from inside Superette, a deli on Upper Street, Islington, N1. #islington

Brunswick Square Gardens, Bloomsbury.

When the Thames tide is out, it’s lovely to walk down on the beach. By Tate Modern, where I sit on the pebbles to draw, the City skyline is visible under the Millennium Bridge. The sandier parts are further upstream by the Festival Hall.

Last chance. The Urban Sketchers London show of more than 300 works closes on Sunday 30/03 - I have two drawings in it, and copies of Sketchbook Reveal are on sale too. urbansketcherslondon.co.uk/exhibition-p...

I have a couple of drawings in the mega Urban Sketchers London show at the Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London running 22-30 March. It will consist of more than 300 drawings and an array of hands-on sketchwalks and other drawing events. See urbansketcherslondon.co.uk/exhibition-p... #UrbanSketchers

Eastbourne Pier. The starlings are still gathering here to murmurate at sunset – it’s not as mesmerising as when we were here one February, but amazing nonetheless. #Eastbourne

The Fig and Walnut, Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury: a new restaurant to meet old friends. #Bloomsbury

The intermission in the 215-minute film The Brutalist. Huge, but A Real Pain worked better for me.

Patricia Chow dropped in from the US and we went drawing down by the river. It’s always good to sit over a coffee and go through someone’s sketchbook before heading out to draw. It’s a cold winter’s morning so we viewed the Thames from inside the Royal Festival Hall. Safe travels Patricia. #Thames

Let the 2025 journey begin! #edmondswa #travelsketchbooks #urbansketchers #graphicjournalism #sketchbooks #reportage #sketcherfest2025

A cafe in Bloomsbury, London. #Bloomsbury

Lunch in a cafe in Dunster, Somerset. #Dunster

Hew Locke’s show “What Have We Here?” at the British Museum. It tells a story of looting and vandalism from Britain’s colonialist past. “Part history lesson, part crime scene,” as the Guardian’s Adrian Searle put it.

Season’s greetings – thanks for following me since the migration here.

Drawings from my first sketchbook, done almost exactly 40 years ago. We went down to the beach, made a fire from driftwood, and then drew it as it burned and was extinguished by the incoming tide.

Clissold Park, Stoke Newington, north London. #Hackney

Horizons at Dungeness, Kent. There’s one hell of a lot of horizon here.

Looking for your people on BlueSky? They could be here…

The filmmaker Derek Jarman’s house at Dungeness is so small tour groups are limited to four at a time. There’s time enough to ask the guide about practically every beautiful thing in each room. #Dungeness

I'm spending the day in bed with @jameshobbsart.bsky.social's beautifully designed new book. It’s full of seven of James’ wonderful sketchbooks, including his first from 1984 and his 2020 book of remembered landscape made when he was housebound with Covid. A book to savour. Highly recommended.

The junction of Leadenhall Street and St Mary Axe, London. Walls of glass, and the Lloyds building.

My new book, Sketchbook Reveal (see bio link), features every page of seven of my sketchbooks from the 200+ I have so far filled. They range from the very first from my student days in the 1980s to life on the road and the Covid days. In the UK and looking for a copy? Contact me directly.

The junction of Thanet Street and Leigh Street, Bloomsbury, from the window of a cafe. The exterior of one of the shops opposite – the independent bookshop Collinge and Clark – was used in the filming of the Channel 4 TV series Black Books.

10 years old! Sketch Your World was published a decade ago. Here are the UK, US, Chinese and French editions.