Alison Barratt

Les Coquelicots! It’s a wonderfully lively word for these crazily red, powerful but delicate miracles of nature.

Letting loose on Fenchurch Street Station, London. Wanted to try to express the mood of the place which seemed so much more vibrant than my… Read More »Fenchurch Street explored

Fenchurch Street Station, London. Built on what is thought to be the site of a Roman fort, it was the first railway station to be… Read More »Fenchurch Street station

After a summer of being outdoors most of the time the November lockdown brought a different way of wanting to draw. I wanted to simply… Read More »Marylebone, London

The work on the left comes from a place of ‘letting go’ of what I was working on using the image of the garden in… Read More »Seville – more development

Reaching the finished illustration/painting of the garden in the Alhambra (that is now on the travel pages of my website) involved a great deal of… Read More »Seville | Granada drawing development

This began as an exercise in taking the sketchbook exploration (last page of sketchbook section) further – loosening up! I used a flat acrylic brush,… Read More »sketchbook textile development

I missed doing yesterday’s blog because I fell asleep after another amazing day being bombarded from all sides by India. So I’ll do today first.… Read More »Kerauli- day 5 I think.

I haven’t managed any drawing yet as today’s been an amazing zooming around, exploring being bowled over by the cornucopia of life that is Delhi!… Read More »Delhi day 2

On way to Jaipur in minibus so v difficult to write. 6 hour journey through fascinating rural India dodging colourfully decorated traffic, blasting horns, narrowly… Read More »Delhi to Jaipur. Day 3