A few more drawings from my recent holiday. These pen and wash sketches are quite tiny as my current watercolour travel journey is only 6" x 4" and I like to use about half the page to write up the day's events.
Petworth House (run by the National Trust) has been home to descendants of the same family for 900 years and contains an impressive collection of art, including works by Gainsborough, Titian, William Blake, Joshua Reynolds, van Dyck and JMW Turner who painted several views of the grounds and the house interior for his patron the 3rd Earl of Egremont. The house sits in 700 acres of landscaped deer park with a couple of lakes.
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Winkworth Arboretum
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The Arboretum is set in a steeply wooded valley leading down to a lake with its boathouse.
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Pendean Farmhouse, originally built in 1609 -
Weald and Downland Museum |
This is an open air museum of some 70 acres where over 50 historic local buildings, threatened with demolition, have been painstakingly reconstructed in either a village or rural setting within the site. A really interesting visit and well worth the full day it took to explore.
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| Our self-catering accommodation |
We stayed in a converted oak-beamed barn on a farm near a small village.
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