News about the Wainwrights in Colour project.
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…
Imitation=highest form of flattery. In the ten years of working on The Wainwrights in Colour I was concerned that someone would come along and try to steal my thunder by either copying my idea and in fact there was another artist who attempted to do so but in oils however…
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,…
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…
Hardly a week goes by when I don’t receive an email asking if a favourite fell from the Wainwrights in Colour project is available for sale. This possibly arises from those people who have bought a copy of the book and not found the details on this website regarding the…
And the winner could be….Well it is certainly busy here at the minute, things have hardly calmed down since The Wainwrights in Colour Book was launched back in May. The intervening five months have seen me fulfilling all the orders for the book both from private individuals as well as…
Yet another busy week has gone by but with a special twist. These weeks are still busy with all things focused on The Wainwrights in Colour Book, any chance of a holiday hasn’t come over the horizon yet but needs must. The highest priority is to fulfill orders and commitments…
What a weekend that was. As often happens in the Lake District the weather played a major part in the plans for the Keswick Mountain Festival three day event. As I was asked to be one of the main speakers on the Saturday afternoon we decided to use the event…
As best that I could I included details in The Wainwrights in Colour Book as to how I conceived the whole idea, worked out a system and then took ten years to complete the project from start to finish. Most importantly though the book was produced to feature all of the…
