Artists have continued to visit and work in the Lake District long after it became fashionable. Carrington, along with Lytton Strachey and various Bloomsbury friends, spend a painting holiday at Watendlath Farm in 1921. The house, seen here, faces Watendlath Beck, which flows from Watendlath Tarn into Derwentwater. A stuffed stag hanging inside was known as 'Mr Wordsworth'.

Today (renamed Steps End Farm) the house belongs to the National Trust. Carrington remembered it as 'an astounding place for pictures' and 'very isolated, for trippers in this secluded valley were rare'.