The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery has a new show of Maurice Wade‘s Stoke paintings. I previously featured his paintings here on Spyders, and identified some of the locations in Middleport and Longport. The new show is a large one, with 90 pictures. The show runs until 26th January 2025. Note though that it’s paid, at a hefty £6 for a ticket plus your bus-fare and a bun in the cafe.

Hopefully this time the Museum has managed to avoid all the ‘glaring lights and highly reflective glass’ which marred my last visit to an exhibition there, something which made the pictures very difficult to see properly. The dense black on his canvases would be especially unsuited to such treatment. There is however…

“a fully illustrated book edited by Petr Hajek, with contributions by David Powell”

This is the catalogue for the show, and it seems to be different from the smaller book Maurice Wade: Silent Landscapes – The Andy McCluskey Collection (2022).