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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.

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 [...]

On our last day we climbed the cliffs of Cliof beach! The winds were very strong coming off the Atlantic and the hail and rain came in short bursts but we ploughed on up to the top!   Cliof hail [...]

This year I am travelling around the UK with my brothers and my sister to see and paint the remote places of the UK, together we make up the team of Remote Britain! Our team is made up of a [...]

We were lucky enough to see the Northern Lights twice in only 3 days! Before I went to Iceland I had researched the Aura and couldn’t wait to see the intense colours in the sky like I had seen in [...]