Who doesn’t love a hot se with ivy, a big garden and a stream!

Before and after, which is best?

Christ’s College, Cambridge. Apparently the mulberry tree in its garden has its own ghost. A remorseful old Fellow Christopher Round paces around the tree and the 17th-century swimming pool at midnight; he allegedly drowned a romantic rival there centuries ago.

Study of the coliseum and its immense arches. It’s peeking through two trees I haven’t finished and damn I just noticed I missed a window at the top 😂

Arches always seem to lead someplace special. Think I got the perspective a bit off on this one 😂

Watercolour is particularly good at capturing light on architecture. Luminous

Gates mean so much in Western and Eastern cultures. Here is a watercolour of the Gate of Literature. The Gate known as Văn Miếu Môn, is the main entrance to the Temple of Literature (Văn Miếu) in Hanoi, Vietnam. A thousand years old…

I love the way sandstone gives depth and smoky shadows. Before and after in watercolour. This painting is Battle Abbey.

Just love reflections in watercolour…

Before and after in pen and watercolour

Next three ready to watercolour. Love drawing architecture!

The Ivy Garden Chelsea. You know it used to be a pub called the six bells for 600 years or so. The bells still hand in the Ivy. #watercolour

Cottage goals. This lovely building is Caswell House captured in watercolour

The Foundling Museum. The first place established to protect vulnerable children. Lovely.

The Holburne in Bath. Now a museum but previously a hotel where some pretty racy things went on!

Hatfield House in watercolour. In November 1558 the young Elizabeth Tudor was sitting under this great oak when she was told that her half‑sister Mary I had died and that she herself was now queen of England. The oak died so in 1985 Queen Elizabeth II planted a replacement. Lovely.

I do like a pretty door and sometimes that can just be colour and nature.

Before and after. Ink or watercolour, which speaks to you?

A few drawings showing United Kingdom architecture in landscape. Next stage watercolour!

The cutest/smallest/oldest tea shop in the UK. On the busy Lonon Strand. It was originally a coffee shop for men turned into a tea room for woman. Nice

Lovely windows on this important building in London. The London Library is a private library in St.James. Its atmospheric interior was used in the Ghosbusters.

Watercolour of a barn with a big roof!

Love buildings which feel part of nature. A temple based on the proportions of a tree sitting within them.

Changing seasons in watercolour

Painting a doorway one layer at a time

Ready to paint! I actually like to paint three watercolours at ty same time. It helps while waiting for layers to dry.

Getting windows right in watercolour is tricky but easier if you just paint exactly what you see.

The Sagrada Família, in Barcelona designed by Antoni Gaudí and painted by me. It’s rare to paint a construction in progress. #watercolor

Do you have a favourite garden?

How my paintings come together. From simple like to full watercolour.

Layer by layer step by step. Paint with me on my Patreon

Trinity College Cambridge. Did you know Lord Byron went here? Did you know he kept a bear in his room? Students!

The wonderful Saville Row. The invention and pinnacle of suit design in such smart handsome buildings. Nailed it!

Watercolour of the Fulham palace walled in progress. #watercolour

Architecture sometimes uses styles from different periods to give the illusion of age and change. Here is a watercolour of a wonderful composed facade of Jesmond Dene House.

The architecture of Venice captured in watercolour.

Sketches and drawings of architecture

Some Hotels have views and then there is the Torridon in the Scottish Highlands. The perfect place to be stranded in a hotel room with someone you love.

London is all about buildings and trees. We have a tree for every person who lives here 8.5 million.

House portrait.

Normanton Church. A reservoir was built around it so now it looks like it floats on water. Beautiful in watercolour and life.

Today’s drawing ready for painting

It may look like a Roman temple but it’s actually a branch of the Cotswolds Company furniture store!

Traditionally hydraulics (fwater fountains) was considered an art form like architecture. It’s interesting how powerful they are when used together. A simple reflection pool really makes this Cambridge college. #watercolor

North American plank house in lines and shade.

Homerton College Cambridge. Love the beautiful lush red brickwork!

Happy new year from London x

I love drawing the metal work on gates. It’s the detail that makes it so satisfying. #watercolour

Cottage of a famous British author

Bath Abbey. It actually has angels running up and down ladders on its facade. Apparently they came as a vision and were made real in stone. #watercolour