Borderlines bestseller*

Borderlines Book festival signing

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…

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Borderlines Book Festival

Borderlines Book Festival 2018

 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…

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Blencathra trig marker- an update

Blencathra summit ring

Blencathra trig ring- now gone. 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 of the scenes…

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Moving pictures

 Just a quick blog post- literally. 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 they become…

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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 rencently embarked upon. This is no way as big or intense as The Wainwrights in Colour but it does have some…

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You can’t win them all…

Lakeland Book of the Year

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…

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A cracking Keswick weekend

Andy Beck Keswick Mountain Festival

 What a difference a year makes…. You may recall that last year I was invited to be one of the main speakers at Keswick Mountian Festival which was a real honour and to make the best use of the weekend we decided to have a stall in the trade marquee…

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Imitation=highest form of flattery

Robinson from Scope End

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 this quickly fell by…

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