A winter walk around Easdale in winter to find locations for The Wainwrights in Colour On Location: 1st February 2012 Parking: Various Pay and display car parks available in Grasmere village. Wainwright Fells: Blea Rigg, Sergeant Man and Tarn Crag (Central) This route was one of the many walks which…
For the first time ever, The Wainwrights in Colour Film is now on YouTube- in full. I still love chatting to people about The Wainwrights in Colour. I can’t deny it. After all, it was a huge part of my life for over ten years. It still plays a big…
A selection of photographic images taken by Andy in the month of January 2022 We were lucky enough to see the New Year in up in Scotland with some good friends. On the return home a stop off in Edinburgh extended the break before we headed home to Teesdale. In…
If things had gone according to plan we would now be over at Keswick setting up for the Mountain Festival this weekend. As with many events this one has now been cancelled due to the Coronavirus. As in previous years I was asked to be a guest speaker at the…
No panic- I haven’t got it, well not as far as I know. The country and it seems the world is now gripped in a “state of emergency” over the current outbreak of Coronavirus. Whether the end result will be as bad as the WHO forecasts who can say, lets…
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…
Tucked away in the corner of my workshop are two boxes of The Wainwrights in Colour books. These are only about 16 or 17 in number and they are (or were) never again to see the light of day, this was due to the fact that they were either slightly…
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…
This morning I have just a few moments to write a short blog as I grab a quick coffee. Today is all about preparing for my next event- the Keswick Mountain Festival 2019. This will be the third year that we have attended and it is always hard work but…
As busy as 2018 was for me it seems that 2019 is following hot on it’s heels. The end of March already, where has the time gone. Behind the scenes my days are taken up with painting and going out gathering references for a new exhibition for the summer. More…
