Maurice Wade (1917 - 1991)

Maurice Wade born 1917 in Burslem, the Mother town of the Potteries which later in 1925 become part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent. 

He was active in the army in WWII 1939 – 1946 returning to live in London until 1951 when he returned to Burslem aged 34 where he felt a the overwhelming need to paint his surroundings finding inspiration in the lonely and silent moods and structures of the North Potteries landscape.

A number of his paintings include the Trent and Mersey Canal (near to Longport where he lived), unable to drive this meant he could focus intensely on his own surroundings and the changing landscape made by man particularly the scars left by man in the later end of 20th century.

Maurice Wade was formally trained at the Burslem School of Art and after the war attended St Martin’s School of Art and Chelsea School of Art.

He exhibited at  RA, The Paris Salon, The Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), Salford City Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent Art Gallery and at Keele University.

Maurice Wade died in 1991 aged 74.