Author Archives: John Snelgrove

Greystones Harbour

A grey and wet day in Greystones, sketched from car interior, with occasional wiper action

Sketchbook from South Africa

Cape Town

V&A Waterfront

Franschhoek

Grotto Beach, Hermanus

Voelklip Beach, Hermanus

Old harbour, Hermanus

Old Harbour, Hermanus

Simon’s Town Harbour

Fisherman’s Beach, Simon’s Town

Kalk Bay

The Cellars, Constantia

The Cellars, Constantia

Recent sketches

Ashford House, Ashford

Market Square, Wicklow Town

Scandinavia sketches

Gamla Stan, Stockholm, with the AF Chapman in the foreground

North Quay, Grinda, in the Stockholm Archipelago

Helena’s summerhouse, Denmark

Beach Huts, Tisvildeleje, Denmark

After the rain on the beach at Tisvildeleje

Clouds over Wales on a subsequent ferry trip to the UK

Connemara skeches

A selection of sketches during our fortnight in Connemara, Ireland, in July.

Emlagh Beach Road

Emlagh Beach scene

Dog’s Bay scene

Gurteen Beach

View from our jetty at Water’s Edge

Baybridge, Sky Road

View to Gurteen Beach

Acrylic experiments

I’ve recently started experimenting with mixed media, mainly acrylics and pastels, still concentrating on local landscapes. This is acrylic paint on paper and shows a typical country road in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Devil’s Glen Waterfall

Sketches for the painting of Devil’s Glen Waterfall

Devil’s Glen Waterfall. Watercolour on Bockingford Not 300gsm paper. 20X29cm

Devil’s Glen waterfall lies 3km southwest of Ashford in County Wicklow.

https://visitwicklow.ie/listing/devils-glen-waterfall-walk/

Incognito 2021

Three postcard paintings submitted to Incognito 2021

County Cork, September 2020

Sketch looking back into Schull harbour

Castletownshend

Castletownshend, Cork

Mick Finn’s Pub, Clonakilty

Baltimore Castle, Co Cork

A couple of recent watercolours

The River Varty, by Hunters Hotel. 20×29

The Pidgeon House, Dublin Bay. 14×20