Borderlines Book Festival- Best selling book!* That’s right you read it correctly, read on… Followers of this website will have seen the recent blog post about my up and coming talk at Borderlines Book Festival in Carlisle. So here is a follow up. I was a little concerned prior to…
Talking the talk. Being asked to either attend events or give talks about The Wainwrights in Colour or my more general work is always a pleasure and those who have been to such an event will understand my passion and joy of giving such presentations. Requests to attend such events…
Blencathra trig ring- now gone. Blencathra trig marker. Obviously when researching the references for The Wainwrights in Colour book I could only record the elements of the sketch as they were on my visit. As the whole project took ten years to complete there will have been changes to some…
Just a quick blog post- literally. Moving pictures. I am currently working on new projects such as The Lakeland 365 which you may be aware of but there is now time for me to work more on paintings and sketches which will be added to this website as and when…
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…
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…
