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…
The results are in! This year’s theme: Figures on the Fells Below are the results for the quiz. Thank you to everyone who entered and well done to the winners. The grid reference section proved to be interesting and took a bit of marking but I think it added a…
Layers of Fells- A “Guess the fell” Special As many of you will know, we have been really busy recently at a variety of shows and events across the north of England. It has been great to meet many of you who follow me either through this website or via…
A more unusual route to take in these two Wainwright Fells On Location: 22nd April 2021 Parking: Limited parking space near St Anne’s farm, Grassgarth. Please be considerate to farmers and other users of the byway. GR: SD4417 9960 Route map: click on the arrow to play the route. GPX…
Glenridding Dodd walk. I am working my way through the backlog of films in my archive. I tend to edit these in the evenings after I have been painting and sketching during the day. Hence the reason they are not already posted. Yesterday I uploaded onto Youtube the latest, a…
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…
I am just back from another great weekend promoting and selling The Wainwrights in Colour book. This was the third time that we had been at Keswick Mountain Festival and amazingly this was the best so far. The weather was better than expected, the rain that was forecast for the…
Following the recent completion of my watercolour painting of Striding Edge on Helvellyn (which you can read about here) I am continuing with the “Classic View” theme by presenting this new watercolour below of Hay Stacks from Peggy’s Bridge. This scene is one that is often observed by those who…
The Lakeland 365 The observant amongst you may have noticed a new feature on this website’s front page, The Lakeland 365. This is a new project which I have rencently embarked upon. This is no way as big or intense as The Wainwrights in Colour but it does have some…
Well after such a long time last night was rather special with regards to The Wainwrights in Colour project. It was the evening that I framed up the sketches for the very last of the 214 fells for the whole undertaking. Obviously the work on all of the 1500 sketches…
