#PaintedCities

I love exploring cities. experiencing the vibrant atmosphere and urban spaces. There is usually a jumble of time periods and a variety in the surviving buildings. I particularly enjoy discovering the quieter contemplative spaces between the busy, bustling ones. They are often found through wandering the pavements… taking that extra time to walk and look around.

These posts contain some of my city artworks, inspired by the architecture of the world and a lot of wanderlust!

Alresford Broad Street - Illustration by Jonathan Chapman

Broad Street, Alresford

Enjoying the sunshine? ☀️😀 Here’s a sunny new street scene from Hampshire… ‘Broad Street, Alresford’ 38 x 20 cm created with acrylic and ink on paper.Alresford (pronounced Allsford) is a handsome Georgian town of colour-washed houses, riverside walks, specialist shops and the UK’s capital of watercress farming. The town’s history […]

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Somerset House in summer - Illustration by Jonathan Chapman

Somerset House in Summer

Here’s a new city image, ‘Somerset House in Summer’. One that I decided to pull from my little black notebook of scenes i’d like to find time to paint (it’s quite a full notebook these days!). Some of you may have spotted that I have painted this building before as […]

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