This drawing was commissioned by a fan of Bath Abbey, particularly the stairs or ladders to heaven on either side of the West Façade. He also asked for it to be without either context or a frame of lines around it which is a bit radical.

Given the lockdown I have been looking back through old drawing projects and came across this lovely church in a ruined medieval town near Sparta. We were on a driving holiday, many years ago, visiting mainly the obvious Classical sites, and I was taken with how completely Greek architecture had been Romanised, with bricks, arches and vaults. This has everything in common with the Sixth Century Christian churches in Rome, and nothing with Delphi and Olympia.

This well loved fountain is typical of lots of Cambridge's early classical buildings and monuments. They have a wonderful disregard of the strict Classical orders, and are very original in their decoration. It took Wren and his school quite a while to get everyone to follow the rules.

I have never got around to drawing Winchester, though we went there several years ago and I prepared an image. However when we were there I saw this sculpture over the altar in the Great Screen and thought it would make a good Christmas Card - so I have just sent this off to print for our family card for this year.

This was a commission for a graduation present. 

While drawing it I remembered a magical evensong, sung by the choir, that we listened to here several years ago with some friends who live nearby.

This drawing was commissioned as a combined birthday and graduation present.

This drawing was commissioned by a friend, as a present for his wife, of the church in which they were married. It really is the most lovely church situated on the edge of Chichester Harbour.

Sal and I moved to Suffolk in the Autumn, and so the opportunity to draw new images has been reduced. However I've always been attracted to Jesus Oxford and the composition of the Gatehouse and so drew this in odd moments in the Spring.

This was another commission this autumn carried out for a tennis enthusiast to give as a present to another member of his Club.

The designer of the Entrance Court and Clock Tower at Birmingham was the Edwardian Architect Aston Webb, who at the time had the largest Architectural practice in the country. His buildings include the V&A, Christ's Hospital and the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. He is best known for his work in recreating the Mall into a more appropriate Imperial Style by refacing Buckingham Palace in Portland Stone and designing Admiralty Arch.

The curved series of linked square pavilions that make up the original buildings of Birmingham University have rather more of an oriental than an English feel to them, though the use of red brick banded with a buff coloured sandstone to some degree compensates for this. The corner turrets of the pavilions are tapered, following the idea of the entasis of a classical column, and the areas of blank brickwork are decorated by mosaic panels on the theme of work and industry by the Arts and Craft artist Robert Anning Bell. The Tower is simply enormous and was presumably originally intended to be visible from the City.