A circuit of Buttermere
A circuit of Buttermere is a short walking route around this popular lake in the English Lake District with some stunning scenery.
Tag: Lake District
The Wainwrights in Colour Film
Did you know that there was a free DVD with every copy of the Wainwrights in Colour Book? Check out the inside of the back cover, a 17 minute film with a background story behind Andy painting the Wainwrights. It is now also available to watch on YouTube.
Cards on the table
A brand new range of Lake District Greeting Cards. (And More!) We are excited to announce a brand new range of greeting cards on the Andy Beck Images website. Greeting cards have always been a popular product for us here at Andy Beck Images and following requests when chatting to…
Glenridding Dodd Walk
Glenridding Dodd walk. I am working my way through the backlog of films in my archive. I tend to edit these in the evenings after I have been painting and sketching during the day. Hence the reason they are not already posted. Yesterday I uploaded onto Youtube the latest, a…
Remembering…..
Following the launch of my idea to frame up the pages of the faulty copies of The Wainwrights in Colour books to help raise funds for Mountain Rescue, I have been busy this week mounting the pages and dispatching them out to customers. The fells chosen by customers are a…
A page from my book
A page from my book. Tucked away in the corner of my workshop are two boxes of The Wainwrights in Colour books. These are only about 16 or 17 in number and they are (or were) never again to see the light of day, this was due to the fact…
Another great weekend
I am just back from another great weekend promoting and selling The Wainwrights in Colour book. This was the third time that we had been at Keswick Mountain Festival and amazingly this was the best so far. The weather was better than expected, the rain that was forecast for the…
Capturing Lakeland’s Beauty
Capture Lakeland by James Bell I wouldn’t normally write reviews on this website, well it isn’t something that I have done in the past but I thought that it would be worth posting a short piece about this wonderful work, Capture Lakeland by James Bell. James is a skilled photographer…
Hull How from Low Tilberthwaite
Even though I have visited the Low Fell area above Little Langdale previously as part of my reference gathering for The Wainwrights in Colour this visit was more to explore the fell on Wainwright’s original lists- Hull How as part of my new project, The Lakeland 365. The fell is…
Gummers How direct
Gummer’s How Direct. Gummer’s How is one of the fells featured in Wainwright’s Outlying Fells of Lakeland book and therefore it features in my The Lakeland 365 project and I describe the fell here. I have visited it on a couple of occasions and have never been disappointed, fine views…
