Well that was fun! We have just returned from a couple of days over in Ambleside where, as you may have read in my previous post I was there to give talks on my Wainwrights in Colour project as part of the Festival of the Fells. The idea was to…
Not long to go now, five days in fact, five days until the Festival of the Fells over in Ambleside. I have been honoured to have been asked to be part of this event which will hopefully put back something into Ambleside after the devastating floods that struck the area…
As I near the end of the Wainwrights in Colour project I work away in the studio by mostly completing the last of the sketches of the fells during the day and then, late into the evening fine tuning the book. After the set back of January it is now…
I suppose everyone wants to start a new year being positive and looking forward to what lies ahead, so it was for me, as we moved into January I was very upbeat, the sketches were nearly all compete for the Wainwrights in Colour project and the book was all but…
As the year nears its end I thought it would be a good time to post word about the Wainwrights in Colour project and the progress of the forthcoming book and of course to wish you all a very Happy Christmas! Firstly I must thank everyone for their patience, especially…
Whilst researching information for my forthcoming book The Wainwrights in Colour I came across an interesting letter written by Wainwright on 8th November 1965*- yes, exactly fifty years ago today. In the letter he states a couple of interesting details which I thought I would share with you. Firstly, he…
From early on things didn’t go according to plan. I struggled with one or two of the larger sketches, the painting just wasn’t going well and with watercolour the more you work at it the more laboured it looks. Several attempts were made but with no improvement. Now this isn’t…
Wednesday was one of those rare days when I was able to break out of the studio, this time it was for a meeting over at The Keswick Museum. Some of you may already know that over the summer the museum is holding a major Wainwright Exhibition, A Love Letter…
It’s all go behind the scenes here and in fact I have had very little time to even get a decent walk in recently as the highest priority is to now complete the final few fells and piece together the text and sketches for the book. As you may know,…
When I post sketches from the Wainwrights in Colour project on social media I often get messages as to whether the work is for sale. The individual sketches are only sold as part of a series from each fell and as such are not sold separately besides, most of these…