Great Gable- 5″x7″ sketch

Great Gable pen and watercolour sketch by Andy Beck

Great Gable- 5″x7″ sketch Is there a more majestic Wainwright fell than the mighty Great Gable? I don’t think so. These were the thoughts going through my head in the past couple of days as I was working on a new small pen and watercolour sketch of said fell. Last…

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Remembering…..

Great Gable summit

Following the launch of my idea to frame up the pages of the faulty copies of The Wainwrights in Colour books (see here) to help raise funds for Mountain Rescue, I have been busy this week mounting the pages and dispatching them out to customers. The fells chosen by customers…

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Great Gable makes a front cover

Great Gable from Dore Head

Once again I was rather pleased when asked recently to provide an image for the front cover of the winter edition of the Wainwright Society quarterly magazine “Footsteps”. I offered up a selection of images which hopefully fitted the bill, not easy as the format of the A5 cover needs…

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I’ve got it covered.

So look what landed on my doormat this morning….The Summer issue of The Wainwright Society Magazine, Footsteps. Nothing special about that really as this quarterly which is issued to members of the society keeps us all up to date with the news of all things “Wainwright” (not actually as nerdy…

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Wainwright- fifty years ago today.

Andy Beck book

Whilst researching information for my forthcoming book The Wainwrights in Colour I came across an interesting letter written by Wainwright on 8th November 1965*- yes, exactly fifty years ago today. In the letter he states a couple of interesting details which I thought I would share with you. Firstly, he…

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