original sketch: St Mary's Church Portchester; days of strong winds; brush pen and fine liner in moleskin journal
the second was done in comfort indoors; watercolour on coldpressed 300g/m2
for those interested in church history and architecture: St Mary's is a classic Norman church built 1133 for the monastic community which located in the grounds of Portchester castle. The community moved out twenty years later; the church over the centuries lost its south transept hence the odd shape, and the original chancel removed and replaced by a much smaller one