The countdown continues. Well, not long now, exactly two weeks in fact, two weeks until the launch day for The Wainwrights in Colour Book. It has been mentioned recently that I must be feeling elated now with things finally coming together and actually this isn’t the case. The fact that…
Meet Colin. “Who is Colin?” I hear you ask. Well I met Colin for the first time on Wednesday. He works down in Dorking in Surrey in a book binding factory and for the next week or two he has his work cut out. Colin’s task is to case each…
Short promo film for the book. As you will perhaps know by now, every copy of The Wainwrights in Colour book comes with a DVD with a 15 minute film of how I have produced the work for the whole project, taking just one fell as an example. I was…
The unsold works. With all of the sketches for the 214 fells completed I have at last been able to frame up all of the work in the presentation format that I have used for all of the paintings. As you may well know, the majority of these works were…
Last night marked a significant milestone for The Wainwrights in Colour project as the final sketches of all 214 fells were framed, with Lank Rigg being the last. The completion of all 1500 sketches had occurred earlier, but the framing was delayed for final book touches. The artist experienced a quiet satisfaction rather than overt emotion, looking forward to the project’s culmination and customer reactions at the book launch in Kendal.
