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Thomas Shepherd
@shepline.bsky.social
Derbyshire born, Suffolk bred.
Lives in Oxfordshire.
Author; Illustrator; Web & UX Design Specialist. Likes photography, bookshops, & nature. Views are my own
Types of Pencil Owners✍️
April 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Who remembers the old almond tree that used to grace the arrival of Spring every year on Oxford's High Street...?

#wip #WorkInProgress #AlmondTree #HighStreet #Oxford #OxfordshireArtists #OxfordshireArtweeks @ox.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
St Mary’s Passage runs between the University Church of St Mary-the-Virgin, and the former City Arms pub, with an overhang above the door supported by fauns, possibly inspiring CS Lewis’ Narnia.

#art #Oxford #RadcliffeSquare #OxfordshireArtists #CSLewis

📸From a photograph by Sarah Rhodes
February 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Cats and dogs and their opinions...

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social #Notebook
February 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The Cloister or Great Quad of Magdalen College, is the "medieval nucleus" of the college. It was constructed between 1474 and 1480.

#TheGreatQuad #MagdalenCollege #cloister #Oxford #illustration #IndianInk #sepia #OxfordshireArtweeks

📸From a photograph by Sarah Rhodes
January 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A quiet corner of calm in a Magdalen College cloister...

#wip #WorkInProgress #Oxford #MagdalenCollege #cloister @ox.ac.uk #OxfordshireArtists #OxfordshireArtweeks

📸 From a photograph by Sarah Rhodes, with thanks.
January 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Just finished! Oxford's Turl Street with Lincoln College's All Saints Church at the far end

#JustFinished #TurlStreet #AllSaintsChurch #LincolnCollege #Oxford #OxfordStreets #streets #StreetScenes #OxfordshireArtists #OxfordshireArtweeks

📸From a photograph by Sarah Rhodes
January 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Looking down Oxford's Turl Street to the spire of Lincoln College's All Saints Church

#wip #WorkInProgress #TurlStreet #AllSaintsChurch #LincolnCollege #Oxford #OxfordStreets #streets #StreetScenes #OxfordshireArtists #OxfordshireArtweeks

📸From a photograph by Sarah Rhodes
January 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Jack Frost visits the garden... ,#BicesterZoo
January 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The beginnings of another Oxford street scene makes my second illustration of 2025...

#TurlStreet #AllSaintsChurch #LincolnCollege #Oxford #Street #OxfordStreets #OxfordshireArtweeks #OxfordshireArtists #LocalArtists

📸 From a photograph by Sarah Rhodes
January 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
So nice to see the sun today after days of anticyclonic gloom...
December 30, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Christmas with the Shepherds today. Jonas baked us a delicious Yule log and they liked their presents (micro-watercolour set an elf elvish earpiece)

#Christmas #family
December 30, 2024 at 10:59 PM
I knew I recognised Gretel's book from last night's production of Hansel and Gretel with @creationtheatre.bsky.social from somewhere...

#HanselAndGretel #BlueFairyBook
December 30, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Traditional versus regular carbonara...

#MammaMiaPizzariaOxford
December 29, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Very enjoyable afternoon luring a friend's eldest children away with the promise of sweets to go and see @creationtheatre.bsky.social's fantastic #Christmas treat of Hansel and Gretel. Even got a look directly down the line of a cane and a wink by Gregory 'Peck' the crow. 😜

#HanselAndGretel
December 29, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Out of the gloom, the golden signs of Spring...

#midwinter #witchhazel #SpringIsComing
December 28, 2024 at 5:25 PM
A Tale of Three Kenwoods. My new whisk with additional dough hooks (left) and the 35 year old "old faithful" that's finally given up the ghost (middle) & my Gran's even older Cheffette that's still going strong, if a little tired but it has useful blender attachment (right)

#Kenwood #whisks #baking
December 28, 2024 at 5:17 PM
And with that, part one of current work in progress is done. Can't say that I'm not glad to be done with the pebble dashing. Next up to get the sepia wash out. Loving how my illustration of #Magpie Lane is coming along.

#wip #WorkInProgress,, #GropecuntLane #OxfordshireArtists #OxfordshireArtweeks
December 4, 2024 at 11:22 PM
And phase 1 is complete. Looking forward now to see how it develops...

#wip #WorkInProgress #Lindisfarne #HolyIsland #Northumberland #OxfordshireArtists #OxfordshireArtweeks
November 19, 2024 at 10:16 PM
November 18, 2024 at 11:58 PM
November 17, 2024 at 11:16 PM
It's the 3 February and there are still 26 more book-buying days this month as the Booklover's Guide To Bookshops turns its attention on the Kew Bookshop, and a first foray into London's indiebookseller world. Still want a copy, now just £10 teshepherdart.com/products/the...
February 3, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Volume 3 of the fully illustrated Booklover's Guide to Bookshops is almost ready to hit the presses and you can pre-order your copy now: teshepherdart.com/collections/..., or even better, ask at one one of the featured bookshops. #Booksky
October 8, 2023 at 5:34 PM