John Snelgrove https://www.johncharleshenry.com Casual sketcher and aspiring artist Sat, 04 Mar 2023 16:41:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 118116428 Greystones Harbour https://www.johncharleshenry.com/greystones-harbour/ Sat, 04 Mar 2023 16:39:35 +0000 https://www.johncharleshenry.com/?p=1670
A grey and wet day in Greystones, sketched from car interior, with occasional wiper action
]]> 1670 Sketchbook from South Africa https://www.johncharleshenry.com/sketchbook-from-south-africa/ https://www.johncharleshenry.com/sketchbook-from-south-africa/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:19:32 +0000 https://www.johncharleshenry.com/?p=1660
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
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Ashford House, Ashford
Market Square, Wicklow Town

]]> 1606 Scandinavia sketches https://www.johncharleshenry.com/scandinavia-sketches/ Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:43:06 +0000 https://www.johncharleshenry.com/?p=1584
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
]]> 1584 Connemara skeches https://www.johncharleshenry.com/connemara-skeches/ Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:23:19 +0000 https://www.johncharleshenry.com/?p=1556 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
]]> 1556 Acrylic experiments https://www.johncharleshenry.com/acrylic-experiments/ Tue, 01 Jun 2021 17:43:30 +0000 https://www.johncharleshenry.com/?p=1504

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.

]]> 1504 Devil’s Glen Waterfall https://www.johncharleshenry.com/devils-glen-waterfall/ Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:44:23 +0000 https://www.johncharleshenry.com/?p=1420
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/
]]> 1420 Incognito 2021 https://www.johncharleshenry.com/incognito-2021/ Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:14:45 +0000 https://www.johncharleshenry.com/?p=1416
Three postcard paintings submitted to Incognito 2021
]]> 1416 County Cork, September 2020 https://www.johncharleshenry.com/county-cork-september-2020/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 12:10:30 +0000 https://www.johncharleshenry.com/?p=1331
Sketch looking back into Schull harbour
Castletownshend
Castletownshend, Cork
Mick Finn’s Pub, Clonakilty
Baltimore Castle, Co Cork
]]> 1331 A couple of recent watercolours https://www.johncharleshenry.com/a-couple-of-recent-watercolours/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:52:52 +0000 https://www.johncharleshenry.com/?p=1222

The River Varty, by Hunters Hotel. 20×29

The Pidgeon House, Dublin Bay. 14×20

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