# watercolourpainting sketchbook drawing art thelyrespeaks

Holiday sketch Rievaulx Abbey in the North York Moors National Park was the first Cistercian monastery in the north of England, founded in 1132. Watercolour over pencil in A4 sketchbook.

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2018-07-04

Melrose Abbey tour in 2014. Alan Sorrell's great drawing of Cistercian house of Melrose and reconstruction suggestion of Sister site of Newbattle Abbey. with plan in reverse. (Newbattle still has the empty treasure chest from the Armada vessel the El Gran Grifon)

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2018-03-26

St Honorat our first choice –
Cistercian monks there, cloistered in silence,
Seemingly without a voice.

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2017-02-01