The power of the big boys. My hand has been forced. Any one who has been following the progress of The Wainwrights in Colour book or may even have kindly purchased a copy from the website here or even attended one of the many talks that I have given around…
Did you really think that I meant THE palace? if only. This was to Blenheim Palace and a very busy but hot weekend at the BBC Countryfile Live event. We headed off last Wednesday to be part of this huge event down in Oxfordshire with a sense of trepidation. 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…
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…
In the finals…..again. Firstly, let me apologise for the lack of blog posts and input to my social media channels over the last few weeks. Just after Christmas I fell under the bug that has been going around and it really took it out of me (it must be something…
I WON! Well, what can I say? Yesterday was a day of mixed emotions when the winners of The Great Outdoor Magazine Readers Awards 2017 were announced and needless to say as you can tell form the post heading, I WON! Honoured, proud and not to say somewhat surprised to…
