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!

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.

More panels completed for the Savile Park mural

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Keepers Of Time opens today at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. As well as studies of the ancient and veteran trees on site, there will be a trail to follow where you can discover the trees for yourself, and then, hopefully, find ancient and veteran trees where you live. ysp.org.uk/whats-on/exh...

#KeepersOfTime opens at @yspsculpture next Saturday! As well as seeing the drawings you will be able to visit all 3 ancient trees and all 14 veteran trees at the park. Here is a study of the Veteran Common sycamore at @yspsculpture that can be found at SE 28917 12702

The next 4 studies of 4 headstocks from collieries that once existed in the Wakefield district, in preparation for Coal Lines opening at @wxwakefield on February 21st. Frickley, Fryston, Glasshoughton and Greatfield. @experiencewakefield @ncmme_

In preparation for Coal Lines opening at @wxwakefield on February 21st, here are studies of the first 4 headstocks of collieries that once existed in the Wakefield district. Ackton Hall, Caphouse, Crigglestone and Denby Grange.

The space for a new installation opening on 21st February!

I’m very fond of this veteran tree and the care that’s been taken to look after it. Even though it’s had to be heavily pollarded, it still survives. Study of a veteran beech tree at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park that can be found at SE 28541 13049 (with summer foliage). #KeepersOfTime

Study of a veteran Fern-leaved beech (also known as a Cut-leaf beech) @yspsculpture.bsky.social that can be found at SE 28248 12737 #KeepersOfTime

Study of a new veteran beech tree at @yspsculpture I’m pleased to say that, as part of the #KeepersOfTime project, I’ve managed to add a new veteran tree to the @woodlandtrust Ancient Tree Inventory! This beauty can be found at SE 28166 12819. I’m hoping to add more soon.

Sketch of a Veteran Small leaved lime at @yspsculpture.bsky.social that can be found at SE 28457 13014 #KeepersOfTime

The third painting of a view looking across the ‘Empty Square’. (The Empty Square is the most featureless square on the ordinance survey maps of the Uk. It contains one pylon. It’s near Ousefleet in East Yorkshire. It’s often referred to as the dullest place in the UK). #painting #landscapepainting

Another painting of a view looking across the ‘Empty Square’. (The Empty Square is the most featureless square on the ordinance survey maps of the Uk. It contains one pylon. It’s near Ousefleet in East Yorkshire. It’s often referred to as the dullest place in the UK). #painting #landscapepainting

Solitary Tree spotting, with coincidental rainbow! #photography #trees

A painting of a view looking across the ‘Empty Square’. The Empty Square is the most featureless square on the ordinance survey maps of the Uk. It contains one pylon. It’s near Ousefleet in East Yorkshire. It’s often referred to as the dullest place in the UK.

Having a bit of a studio tidy. Does anyone else have tubs of paintbrushes they never ever use but keep ‘just in case’?

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Along the coastal path from Flamborough, East Yorkshire #photography #coast

A painting I completed recently of the only ancient oak tree in the Wakefield district. It can be found down a small lane near the village of Notton. It’s probably about 400 years old.

5 paintings of roundabouts in the Wakefield district. I’ve became strangely obsessed by them. They are place we don’t go on to.

A beach at Amble where the bones of trees get washed up

Hurrah!!

Monday morning studio time.

If you’ve ever wondered what the inside of a cooling tower looks like … I took these photographs inside Ferrybridge C power station during its decommissioning process. The size was overwhelming.

5 years ago I was building a full sized forced rhubarb growing shed, complete with real rhubarb, rhubarb illuminations & a sound score of recordings of rhubarb growing. Over 10 days 18,000 people queued to get a peek inside. It was a sculptural exploration of our complex relationship with a plant.