Sketches of Pembrokeshire

We start at the end

School art lessons were where my sketching activities ended until I was married with children. During the 1980s Jenks family holidays holidays involved heading to Pembrokeshire every Spring and August Bank Holiday - taking a touring caravan accompanied by a gang that resembled a traveller convoy. It was then that I would take one of Dad's much loved sketch pads along on the daily walks along the fabulous coastal paths in that area. I'd stop for a few minutes and put down a quick scribble of wherever we were. These I'd later enhance sitting down back at the caravan when I had a spare few minutes, not entertaining kids.

Here are some early examples. A few pencil lines would suffice, to be built upon with a fine felt pen back at camp. It would usually be a rainy day outing that provided the fodder for these drawings – mobile phones at that time were not clever enough to be good cameras so I had to work fast before the sketch pad became soggy!

The number of sketches expanded into a considerable portfolio – the ones that copy well will be posted on here and create a history of our travel throughout the UK. Click on the thumbnail you are interested in to see a larger version open up in your browser....
Middle Mill (Welsh: Felinganol) is a small settlement on the River Solva in the parish of Whitchurch, Pembrokeshire, Wales, (approximately one mile upstream from the coastal village of Solva). Abereiddy (usual Welsh spelling: Abereiddi) is a hamlet in the county of Pembrokeshire, in south-west Wales. Solva, Dyfed (Pembrokeshire) is a harbour village situated in St. Brides Bay
 
Whitesands, Dyfed (Pembrokeshire) is a wide expanse of fine white sand curving north towards the remote rocky headland of St Davids Head. Porthclais port was built in the 12th century. The entire harbour is within the St. David's Peninsula Site of Special Scientific Interest.  

 

The number of sketches expanded into a considerable portfolio – the ones that copy well will be posted on here and create a history of our travel throughout the UK.

There was a gap in sketch output during my working years in the 1990s, but we will pick up on the late 2000s with a bunch of more recent caravan travels – a time when Gill and I were gifted National Trust membership by our kids.

 

 

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