Tony Wade

A quick study of the Ancient ash tree at @yspsculpture.bsky.social in Oak Gall Ink and Walnut Ink.

Just Us are a passionate group of young people from Barnsley VCS organisations (Chilypep, YMCA and the Youth Association) who work with Public Health to make a positive difference to children and young people’s emotional well-being and mental health.

Installation complete at The Cooper Gallery in Barnsley. Exhibition opens on Saturday. Expressing the Walls in my Mind was created with young people from Just Us at workshops at the gallery and Barnsley Civic.

Each brick contains scenes and thoughts about mental health and well-being.

A few quick installation shots from Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown of the work in ‘Make now, think later’ Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Awards 2024–25 exhibition which opens tomorrow.

The Butterfly Effect is now back up and doing its thing at Treacy Hall @WakefieldCath
This is a part of a bigger installation that was commissioned by @mywakefield for Festival of the Earth 2021

A selection of the Savile Park Murals that are officially unveiled tomorrow!

The Long Lines. I’m looking out for these spaces where farmers and footpaths coexist. This one is between Badsworth and Ackworth at SE 45500 15923

This is the last one of these; revisiting a scene I painted 5 years ago today, ‘1st June 2020 - Bus stop by Thornes Park football pitches’. I’ve always liked this because of the red of the bus stop. They’ve replaced the bent bus stop sign and there are people running in the park, but that’s about it

New shoots!

At the time I didn’t think I’d be recording scenes that might change. We now have a large ‘shed’ that’s Tile Yard. Plants have shifted also. I might revisit some more sites I’ve previously painted and documented. I’ve never intended to document change but I guess that becomes inevitable with age.

I was at Kirkgate station last week, waiting for a train to Pontefract. Walking along the platform I was having a very strong sense of deja vu. I took a photograph as I knew that view. Then I remembered. Purely coincidentally 5 years ago to the day I painted that very same scene.

Thank you! And 😬

Still a way to go but it’s over halfway there! Progress on the 18 (2ft x 4ft) canvases that will form the 18 (4ft x 8ft) panels for the Savile Park mural.
Still to paint are Castleford Panthers ARLFC, Castleford RUFC, Three Lanes End Academy, Half Acres Primary Academy and Acton Pastures Primary.

More panels completed for the Savile Park mural

The artist Tony Wade gestures at an interestingly aged tree.

A group of people consider an ancient tree, by one of the modernist buildings of the former Bretton Hall College.

Tony Wade points at another old tree.

The artist Tony Wade stands on the stump of a lost ancient tree, while people look sadly on.

Learning about ancient, veteran and lost trees with @tonywade.bsky.social at @yspsculpture.bsky.social yesterday.

It’s Open Studios at The Art House in Wakefield this Saturday 10am to 4pm. Lots of studios will be open including mine.

Thank you for coming and it was lovely to meet you today!

It’s all getting a bit tight in the studio at the moment, especially when you know there are still 13 panels to do! #SavileParkMural.

20 birds made with pupils from a school in Halifax for a bird trail in the Woolshops Shopping Centre

A wonderful find - two pieces of concrete, connected by iron reinforcing rods, draped over a branch. I’m guessing the tree has grown up under it and carried it off the ground.

A lovely morning filming ancient and veteran trees at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with the Woodland Trust.

Happy hunting!

It’s ArtWalk tomorrow in Wakefield. I’ll be at Wakefield Cathedral between 5 and 8

Silk paintings from today’s workshop celebrating buildings in Huddersfield.

Drawings of 25 buildings in Huddersfield.

5 years ago today I was out painting on Heath Common at the start of a new project based on plein air paintings looking across Wakefield. The project didn’t quite work out as planned. ‘Friday 20th March 2020 – Mount ‘Tarry by it’ from Heath Common’

Join me on Monday 24th March at Castleford Library (10am to 2pm) to help design a new mural for Savile Park in Whitwood. This project is part of the Crossings & Gateways program of Our Year 2024

A lighting test today for an exhibition at Wakefield Cathedral for March @artwalk.wakefield 20 paintings marking 5 years since lockdown restriction began, from the series of 40 paintings I made of Wakefield within a 30 walk from my house, all painted between 23rd March and 1st June 2020.

Weather is looking good today so it’s a perfect opportunity for an extended walk at @yspsculpture to find this veteran sweet chestnut in the Country Park. Get a park map from the YSP Centre, find the grid reference at the Keepers Of Time exhibition and see if you can find it!

Perfect weather to be out spotting the ancient and veteran trees at @yspsculpture for Keepers Of Time. This is the ancient Field Maple. @woodlandtrust