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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. 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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