Chelsea Royal Hospital, Chelsea

Today, this complex acts as a retirement and care home, but it has housed a range of other groups including ware veterans in the past. It is generally regarded as a luxury home for the mostly upper classes, and only admitted women in 2009.

The courtyard reminded me most of an Oxford college – in particular the Queen’s college – with its distinctive symetrical windows and neatly kept grass.

I decided to use two-point perspective as a sketching technique for this because it felt appropriate to the building scale and shape.

In more detail, I did a close-up sketch of the entrance in the middle of the courtyard. The neoclassical influence is very distinctive here.