Steve Wade art

Wade, also known as ‘The Artist Wade’ is a West Yorkshire, UK based Artist. 

His paintings are based around celebrity / icon portrait work with his own unique abstract flair. This style has made Wade’s work instantly recognisable and has gained him a huge following and a fantastic worldwide reputation and client base, including quite a number of celebrities. 

He’s developed his own art process to give his finished painting a superior look and feel to ensure colours stay vibrant and the art he produces still looks as sharp and crisp decades later as the day it left Wade Gallery. 

His whole life he has been involved in art and design. From 16 years old leaving school he worked as a design engineer operating CAD for over a decade designing aesthetic commercial vehicle bodywork where he set up his own business, Auto-Lift Uk Ltd, which still operates to this day although now under the ownership of his brother. 

Although this was a great success and allowed him to concentrate time in various art projects throughout his 20’s and 30’s it still wasn’t quite the role he was looking for in life. 

So, looking for new challenges and to feed his appetite for art, at 37 he started tattooing. Tattoos had always been a part of his life and he enjoyed all aspects of the tattoo industry. 

He opened up All Seeing Eye Tattoo Lounge, and 4-5 years later opened a second studio Halifax Tattoo Collective and won various awards at some of the UKs leading conventions for his Tattoo work. 

Today, Wade can be found in his all new flagship tattoo and art premises in the centre of Halifax boasting 10 resident artists and artwork over 4 floors which he runs with his fiance, Torz. 

Wade’s original paintings and the Limited Edition prints are delivered weekly throughout the world! So you don’t have to be in the UK to enjoy his art. 

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