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Francis Hamel
The Oxford Paintings -
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'I usually start work at dawn, my bicycle has a trailer full of paints and canvasses'
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'Most of the paintings are from the street side – I have always tried to include the paraphernalia of modernity, patches in the tarmac, traffic lights and double yellow lines as well as the finials, columns and facades.'
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The subtle but compelling beauty and charm of Magdalen College have been so widely recognised, snug, painted, described so often, that it would be a false reticence to ignore them
Thomas Herbert Warren, Magdalen College, 1907, selected by Ronald Caffrey in Francis Hamel - The Oxford Paintings
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Francis Hamel: The Oxford Paintings
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