One of my favourite things about Lundy Island is the adventure you have getting there. Getting to an island 12 miles out to sea on the choppy Bristol Channel when you’re a Londoner is quite [...]
Our Remote Britain trip to Northumbria was so great! It was the sixth trip and we have one left, location to be confirmed 🙂 A famous gem in Northumbria is The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, full of [...]
Here’s my first vlog, experimenting with colours for my next Remote Britain painting… hope you enjoy! Art Vlog: A Day In The Life from Lydia Orange on Vimeo.
Bardsey Island! Attracting artists, musicians and writers for centuries with its rich history of legends, being known as the “Island of 20,000 saints”, the claim to be the burial site of [...]
I took my next Plein Air expedition into the woods, I have lived next to Wimbledon Common now for four years and am still discovering new parts to it! I wandered past the windmill on Friday and [...]
Painting Plein Air (the fancy french word for outside), takes some planning, but is totally worth it! Painting from photos inside the safety of your studio seems like the obvious everyday option, [...]
I’ve been thinking recently that I’d like to raise some money for a charity using my artwork and so I’ve decided I’m going to do an online auction on Facebook! On this [...]
For our March trip we went to Hartland in North Devon. We had been before on a family holiday and it had made such an impression on us. Spekes House is on a steep incline on the land between a [...]
Snowdonia in February! Probably one of the most reckless ventures to make, we chose to climb Snowden during the week of Storm Imogen… yeah we did! We climbed through two ft deep of snow, [...]
Callanish is a one of the main tourist attractions on Harris, the Standing Stones are extraordinary. Scattered around the Island are sets of these Standing Stones, alike to Stone Henge. Callanish [...]