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There is always something wonderful about a lighthouse at dusk. Just about to come to life just as the day fades. This is my attempt to capture the moment in watercolour

Two villas on lake Como. It’s something about the simple architectural forms against dramatic nature. So romantic and exciting

Small pavilions rock. It’s funny how small buildings can be so powerful. Moorish Pavilion, Villa Melzi, Bellagio.

The church designed by Christopher Wren and attended. It was his parish church and the test for st. Paul’s

Watercolour of the last judgement pub or Judgment as it’s called now. It changed its name a few years back to the American spelling. Apparently the American spelling seems to be used more in court. Perhaps any solicitors could let us know more?

The Roman Baths in Bath. If you want to know more about this beautiful city and see my watercolour collection read this. www.freehandlines.co.uk/post/bath-a-...

The Lamb pub. It’s here that Ted Hughes and Syilvia Plath met and married just four months later

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The Petit Palais. It’s actually rather large. Designed by Charles Girault who absolutely nailed the entrance! So impressive and a little bit bling…

Pubs and beer!

Work in Progress. Some views demand painting.

A small little moorish pavilion on the edge of lake Como in Italy. Where Franz Liszt once drank coffee.

Inktober

Work in Progress. Some views demand painting. A villa on lake Como

Always love the architecture and character of Marylebone. It’s fast becoming my favourite inner village of London.

Two more line drawings soon to be watercoloured

The Horse & Groom pub in Belgravia. legend holds that The Beatles frequented the pub in the 1960s, with their manager Brian Epstein living nearby. In more recent times, celebrities like Rihanna and Gwyneth Paltrow have also visited. So very Belgravia!

The Brompton Oratory. The second largest Catholic Church in London. It’s also where the Brompton cycles get their name from.

The sundial in this painting tells the time in moonlight! Corpus Christi College, Oxford, founded in 1517 by Bishop Richard Foxe, is only the 12th oldest college in the University of Oxford

Architecture in watercolour

The U.S. Embassy. Now a swanky hotel on Grosvenor Square. The American Eagle is still there and actually made from a B52 Bomber.

It always pays to look up. An old clock as a sign for a watchmaker in Hampstead. Lovely in watercolour

Two sides of the same building. St Catherine’s College Oxford. Moat on one side, quad on the other. Beautiful in watercolour

Windows at night look beautiful in watercolour

Grosvenor Square and the former United States Embassy now a swanky hotel with staff wearing straw boater hats bizarrely, anyone know why?

San Francisco town hall doorway timeline me of the Petit Palace in Paris! Watercolour of it’s amazing door

More classic American architecture in watercolour. Jones Street is a historic, brick‑paved residential street in Savannah’s Historic District. Local lore suggests the saying keeping up with the Joneses” relates to Jones Street’s status.

Pen drawings of the architecture of U.S. watercolours incoming!

Benjamin Franklin House. His only surviving residence and where he planned North America independence. Around 30 years ago 15 bodies where found buried in the garden but it’s itwhat it seems www.freehandlines.co.uk/product-page...

The beautiful elegant houses of Paddington in London.

Nighttime Watercolour of a hotel in Venice. I just love the light at night.

Pen drawings I will watercolour soon!

Fiercely Female. Murray Edwards College is a women-focused constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1954 as New Hall and renamed in 2008. Students have been known to hold knitting competitions in the library!

Perhaps one of the top 10 buildings in the UK according to Pevsner. That’s pretty amazing for a one room gatehouse. I give you Worcester Lodge, Badminton Estate, South Gloucestershire in watercolour and yes Badmingdon was invented here.

An Edinburgh landmark in watercolour the Melville Monument. The column’s position was chosen so that it could be seen from ships in the Firth of Forth, partly honouring Dundas’s role in shipping.His unfortunate relationship with the slave trade (he delayed abolition) is now reflected in his plaque.

Osteria alla Frasca in Venice first opened its doors in 1903 as a wine shop, not a restaurant. The name “alla Frasca” means “leafy branch” in Italian, referring to the grape vine pergola on the facade today. Apparently it used to be a storage space for Titan’s work. Love painting at dusk

I think I am getting excited by painted homes. This sample from Venice. Such a great thing to watercolour

The painted ladies of San Francisco. Beautiful and elegant

How cool is this Algerian Coffee Shop in Soho. Established 1887! In stunning red watercolour

Rainbow Row. The most complete Georgian Street in the States in beautiful bright Caribbean colours. Urban legend has it that the colours allowed drunken sailors to find their lodgings. The truth is more about how a community comes together around an idea. Lovely to paint

Architecture and light in watercolour. Venice.

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Lock and Co hatters. Interesting fact hat makers are called milliners the word comes from the nearby company of Haberdashers who would import fancy lace and ribbon from Milan and so wher known as Milaners. Lock is 350 years old!

Architecture and airplanes, awesome

Acorn Street in Boston. Once one of the area poorest now perhaps the most photographed in the States. It looks pretty marvellous in autumnal watercolours.

Victorian Lamps make for great watercolour studies.

The next one is Boston, anyone know this street before I paint it?

Fortnum’s London’s most exclusive store. However it is rumoured to have created perhaps the most common of food types- the scotch egg.if you love London and interesting facts check out… www.freehandlines.co.uk/post/fun-foo...

Chicheley Hall built of 900,000 bricks and every one gorgeous! Love it in watercolour

Harvard in watercolour. Lowell House Interestingly the clock tower had bells saved from a Danilov Monastery in Moscow early in Soviet rule. They were returned to the church around 19 years ago and Russia made them new ones.