New project underway. 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 recently embarked upon. This is no way as big or intense as The Wainwrights in Colour but it…
Andy Beck Artist News. Read how The Wainwrights in Colour book fared at this years Lakeland Book of the Year Awards held yesterday in Kendal. Click on this link to find out Back to home page Andy Beck- Having been a professional artist since leaving the Royal Air Force Regiment…
Lakeland Book of the year Awards Yesterday we were lucky enough to attend the charity luncheon of the prestigious Lakeland Book of the Year awards at The Castle Green Hotel in Kendal. It is a location that I am familiar with as just over a year ago we held the…
What a difference a year makes…. A cracking Keswick weekend. You may recall that last year I was invited to be one of the main speakers at Keswick Mountain Festival which was a real honour and to make the best use of the weekend we decided to have a stall…
A bit of a website re-vamp. Over this weekend I have had a bit of a re-vamp of this website. The major part of this was to remove almost all of the sketches from the Wainwrights in Colour section of the site to not only free up space for new…
Time to move on… You will have to forgive me for being so quiet here on my websites over the past few months, it would be easy to imagine that I have been sitting with my feet up watching daytime TV, enjoying the pleasures of Escape to the Country and Countdown…
Just a simple Thank You. I have been asked recently if winning the BBC Countryfile Award comes with some financial reward or fame on TV, well sadly not, these awards are a huge honour but no chance of getting out onto the fells with Ellie Harrison just yet. However,…
Award for The Wainwrights in Colour. Proud and honoured to have been awarded the BBC Countryfile Magazine Book of the Year. To find out more information and to take up a Special Offer on book orders then click here. Thank you to everyone who took time to vote. And…
What can I say….. Many thanks to all of you who voted in the recent BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards. Thanks to your support and votes I am proud and honoured to announce that today I was informed that The Wainwrights in Colour Book took the accolade ahead of some other…
In the finals…..again. Firstly, let me apologise for the lack of blog posts and input to my social media channels over the last few weeks. Just after Christmas I fell under the bug that has been going around and it really took it out of me (it must be something…
