Tony Wade
@tonywade.bsky.social
Artist, maker of stuff, painter, bad mandolin player. Sometimes says no.
www.tonywadeart.com
www.tonywadeart.com
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
This is a part of a bigger installation that was commissioned by @mywakefield for Festival of the Earth 2021
August 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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
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!
July 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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
June 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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
June 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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
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.
May 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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.
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.
Still to paint are Castleford Panthers ARLFC, Castleford RUFC, Three Lanes End Academy, Half Acres Primary Academy and Acton Pastures Primary.
May 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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.
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
April 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
More panels completed for the Savile Park mural
It’s Open Studios at The Art House in Wakefield this Saturday 10am to 4pm. Lots of studios will be open including mine.
April 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It’s Open Studios at The Art House in Wakefield this Saturday 10am to 4pm. Lots of studios will be open including mine.
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.
April 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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
April 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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.
April 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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.
March 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A lovely morning filming ancient and veteran trees at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with the Woodland Trust.
It’s ArtWalk tomorrow in Wakefield. I’ll be at Wakefield Cathedral between 5 and 8
March 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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.
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Silk paintings from today’s workshop celebrating buildings in Huddersfield.
Drawings of 25 buildings in Huddersfield.
March 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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’
March 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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
March 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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.
March 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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!
March 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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
March 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Perfect weather to be out spotting the ancient and veteran trees at @yspsculpture for Keepers Of Time. This is the ancient Field Maple. @woodlandtrust
Thank you Yorkshire Post ! A lovely write up about the Keepers of Time exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the thoughts behind the explorations of ancient and veteran trees. (Warning - also contains photographs of me looking grumpy because it was freezing when we did them!)
March 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Thank you Yorkshire Post ! A lovely write up about the Keepers of Time exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the thoughts behind the explorations of ancient and veteran trees. (Warning - also contains photographs of me looking grumpy because it was freezing when we did them!)
Coal Lines is still on at @wxwakefield.bsky.social until
Sunday.
Sunday.
February 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Coal Lines is still on at @wxwakefield.bsky.social until
Sunday.
Sunday.
A glimpse at the installation of Coal Lines, which opens in WX Wakefield on Friday.
February 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
A glimpse at the installation of Coal Lines, which opens in WX Wakefield on Friday.
Thank you @yspsculpture for putting these information posts next to the ancient and veteran trees featured in the #KeepersOfTime exhibition! @woodlandtrust
February 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Thank you @yspsculpture for putting these information posts next to the ancient and veteran trees featured in the #KeepersOfTime exhibition! @woodlandtrust