This document contains sketches and descriptions from the artist Catherine Downes' travels. It includes sketches of architectural details she observed in Much Wenlock and Nicosia, Cyprus, as well as landscapes from Wales, Anglesey, Northern Cyprus, Bodmin Moor, and Dorchester. The sketches are completed using a variety of drawing and painting techniques like pen, brush pen, watercolor washes, and newspaper print collaging. Short descriptions provide context for the locations and Downes' experience creating the sketches on site. The document serves as a collection of Downes' artwork from her travels and an invitation for others to find inspiration to create their own sketches of the world.

1. Catherine
Downes
The
Sketches

2. Above: The house with the
funny curved gable is No. 5.
Looks a bit like a Dutch Gable.
Stands at the junction of
Racecourse Lane and
St Marys Rd.
It once had a Lilliput Lane
model made of it.
Right: The house with
the leaning chimneys is
in Barrow Street and is
Called “Wolmer House”.
Below: This is the back
view of the shops at the
bottom of High Street.
I think they are very
elegant.
Left: The rear of the
Guildhall in town,
showing the arched
windows of the market
under the Guildhall.
Drawn from the
churchyard.
‘Architecture’
Much Wenlock
‘Much Wenlock Priory.’ The Topiary Garden, St. Michaels Chapel.

3. ‘Remarkable Jigsaw.’
Upperworks/Viaduct, Coalbrookdale
Sept 2013
Museum of Iron,
Coalbrookdale.
Fantastic colours
in the bricks;
it was really a
‘Wow!’ moment
when I first saw
this place.
The viaduct was
constructed in, and
around the old
ironworks.
This is where
Abraham Darby
first smelted iron
with Coke .
In the painting above I’ve used newspaper print collaging
to achieve a rougher, aged look to the finished piece.
‘Remarkable Jigsaw.’

5. ‘Nicosia City.’
This was in Nicosia City: I made my way upstairs and drew. So peaceful there,
with just the odd person asking to look at my work. A Turkish gentleman
explained that the pillar styles were different because one was Ottoman Empire
and the others were Roman.
This was a beautiful building, built of yellow stone. Two stories round a
square courtyard, pillared arches all round. This was the Caravanserai
where people came from outside the town to bring goods for sale and
I guess sat under the arched area downstairs and sold their produce
(like our markets), and then, on the upper storey, were rooms where
they could stay overnight, rather like a DIY Inn.
Now it has a café in one corner downstairs, and people have the rooms
upstairs and downstairs to display their crafts. Up in this gallery
was an odd assortment of second-hand furniture for sale, which
I thought looked a bit quirky. I could have sketched here for a week
it was so beautiful.
‘St Francis Church, Famagusta.’ (opposite)
Monday, December 28th 2009, Cyprus, Famagusta, Children playing
in nearby Primary School. Overcast sky, odd spot of rain, sitting
on an old wall with tiny ants crawling all over me – must have sat
by their nest! The odd bird calling.
Drawn with pen with liquid ink and used brush pen to make shadows.
Touched with watercolour wash.

6. Piles of white rocks among the trees. The view spans miles, about 2000 ft up.
When I finished this drawing,
I turned round and
discovered I was surrounded
by a crowd of people who
had been quietly watching
me draw.
Water soluble ink pen
and touches of watercolour.
‘In The Five Finger Mountains,
Northern Cyprus.’

7. ‘Trethevy Quoit, Bodmin moor.’
These sort of places fascinate me.
The top stone was only balanced on
a few points of the stones below.
Biro with watercolour.

8. ‘Llanberis Pass, Wales.’
Coming down Llanberis Pass, this famous scene
confronts the driver. Dark, ominous rain clouds
were coming over the shoulder of the mountain.
I had to stop to capture the moment before I was
engulfed in the storm.

9. Low Tide
‘Red Wharf Bay,
Anglesey.’
May 2015 Tourquoise strip of water where the channel was flowing
most of this front area was pebbly sand. Windy.
tore my paper
flapping in the wind

10. June 22 ‘09
Visiting Teri & Penny for
the last time in their rented
house in Glade Path Rd,
“The Old Masons Arms”.
Dorchester is a very nice,
ancient town, with an old Roman
Villa preserved with its
mosaic floors. There is also
an ampitheatre at the other end of town.
Ducks swimming and quacking. Two swans came
gliding past, dipping in the green weed for food -
‘Town Walls Walk,
Dorchester.’

11. Photography & Reprographic Design Tracey Swain TnT-Photoart • Published by TnT-Photoart 2016
Catherine Downes
The Sketches
I hope you enjoy my sketches as much as I enjoyed producing them. I would like to think this book
might inspire you to take your pencils and paints outside and start painting your world.
Catherine. www.catherinedownes-artist.co.uk