Mark Wade | London Artist

I drew this drawing of one of my favourite artists, the incredible Francis Bacon this morning to mark his birthday today in 1909. I'm actually fascinated by him, his life, and his art. #francisbacon #francisbaconart #portraitart #portraitdrawingstudy #sketchbookart

Pleased to announce that you can now buy a set of postcard prints of some of my artwork. Click on the link in bio and go to Postcard Prints. There are 5 postcards in the set, with a different print of one of my London after dark paintings, all printed on high quality card with a deep glossy finish.

It's International Artist's Day, the day Picasso was born. So, here's something abstract from me I've painted recently. Under The Influence - Soho Oil on canvas 23" × 16" Available to purchase from my website (link in bio), or DM. #internationalartistsday #abstractart #sohoart #londonafterdark

Today in 1942 The Feldman Swing Club was founded in the basement at 100 Oxford Street, London, and later evolved into the iconic 100 Club. My painting of the club isn't of the front, but of the rear entrance where I used to haul my drum kit down the fire exit steps when I used to play the club.

I'm having a little break from painting Soho street scenes and painting things for my own enjoyment. Both these paintings were started on the same day, and such a juxtaposition to each other I thought I'd share. The apple has already been bought by someone, while the abstract is still a WIP.

As today is apparently the day 50 years ago that the second auditorium of the National Theatre opened in 1976, here's my painting of it. I occasionally like to paint brutalist architecture in a more modernist abstract style. This is one of three paintings for sale on my website (link in bio)

How I wish Piccadilly Circus still looked like this! I'd forgotten I'd painted this postcard size painting of Piccadilly Circus back in it's glory days. It would look good framed and on someone's wall. Piccadilly Circus Oil on board 16cm × 13cm

Whilst I'm in between paintings, I decided to give this old one from 2023 a bit of a rework. Quo Vadis With Stormy Sky Oil on board 16" × 12" Available to buy from my website, London After Dark (link in bio). #londonart #londonartist #londonpainting #soholondon #quovadissoho

My oil painting of Great Windmill Street in Soho at night is available to buy, as well as a preliminary study I made in watercolour. Both can be purchased from my website link in my bio. Great Windmill Street Oil on canvas 24" × 16" Great Windmill Street Watercolour on cold press paper 14" × 10"

Fresh off the easel and available to buy from my website (link in bio), a new London After Dark painting of Great Windmill Street in Soho, with the neon lights of The Windmill Theatre breaking the gloom of the eerily deserted street. Great Windmill Street Oil on canvas 24" × 16"

Thanks to my client for the photo of me and my miniature oil painting in a tin of @baritaliasoho. Meeting at Bar Italia to give him the tin he'd bought was the obvious choice. More Soho tin paintings available to buy on my website (link in bio). #baritalia #frithstreet #miniatureoilpainting #soho

My painting of Brewer Street is available to buy from my website, along with two preparatory studies I made prior to starting the actual painting. Wet Night on Brewer Street Oil on canvas 24" × 20" Preparatory study Oil on paper 14" × 10" Preparatory study 1 Oil on paper 30cm × 21cm

Swipe right to spot the difference? I literally stopped in my tracks yesterday as I walked down Dean Street and noticed that something was missing. Every time I paint a location it develops such a connection with me, that every detail is familiar. So to see the red phone box gone, felt a little sad

Live scenes from the pink chair! Work in progress, a wet night in Soho emerging. #fromthestudio #artistsstudio #paintingprocess #paintinginprogress #sohoart

A quick couple of oil studies for a new wet night in Soho painting I'm planning. They're useful to do, as I now realise I want a wider composition with both sides of the road in view.

I've got a number of preliminary watercolour studies I've made for future oil paintings available to now buy from my website. Link is in my bio is you fancy taking a look?

My painting of Bar Italia is now available to buy from my website (link in bio). It's a quirky tall narrow canvas capturing the famous neon glow from the iconic sign. Bar Italia Soho Oil on canvas 32" × 12" #baritalia #sohoart #soholondon #londonart #frithstreet

My latest batch of miniature oil paintings in tins are now live on my website and available to buy. Click on the link in bio to go to my website. These are quirky little paintings where the tin is the palette and easel, and can be displayed as a complete artwork that fits in your pocket

I had a busy day yesterday having my paintings professionally photographed so I can start making prints of more of my original paintings. More details soon! #originalart #limitededitionprints #sohoart #londonpainter #whatartistsdo

Latest painting of Soho now available from my website (link in bio). A vertical slice of Soho. This time, Ronnie Scott's jazz club in Frith Street, London. This must be about the 5th time I've painted the club now? Ronnie Scott's Oil on canvas 32" × 12"

One of my favourite paintings of Soho. I tried to paint it without any cars or people, as I iften do. But, there is the lorry at the far end of the road, that I liked the glow of it's red lights reflected in the wet street, along with the neon from Bar Italia and Ronnie's, so left it in.

Do you know what I haven't done in ages? A miniature oil painting in a tin! These are great fun. The tin serves as my palette, easel and display, all in one. Stay tuned to see what I paint! #theblueposts #thefrenchhouse #ronniescotts #johnsimons #tinpainting

Turns out today is International Kissing Day. So I couldn't let it pass without my painting, Soho Kiss. Soho Kiss Oil on canvas 28" × 20"

Currently working on a tall narrow canvas of Ronnie Scott's jazz club. Another couple of days and it should be finished. #oilpaintinginprogress #artinprogress #fromthestudio #whatartistsdo #oilpainting

A new Soho painting added to my website (link in bio). Dusk Falls On Dean Street Oil on canvas 61cm × 50cm There's a wonderful transition when day turns to night in Soho. As the dusk falls, the light is neither daytime, or night and the atmosphere begins to change with it.

I often paint a watercolour sketch in my sketchbook before I start a new oil painting, but I've taken to painting a larger watercolour as well. I've got quite a few now and might make them available soon? #meardstreet #soholondon #sohoart #londonpainter #londonart

A quick tour of some of the Soho locations that have inspired my paintings. #soho #soholondon #paintingsoflondon #sohoart #sohopainting

My latest Soho painting, Neon Bar Soho is now live on my website (link in bio) and available to buy. It's quirky tall thin canvas, and offers a vertical slice of Soho in all its neon glory and wet pavements. Neon Bar Soho Oil on canvas 32" × 12" #greatwindmillstreet #soholondon #sohopubs

My latest Soho painting of a wet night on Great Windmill Street with the warm neon glow of the Bar sign lighting the wet street. Available from my website tomorrow. #sohopubs #soholondon #londonart #sohoart #greatwindmillstreet

Just finished a new Soho painting. A wet day in Meard Street. I love Meard Street. Not only is it a fine example of 1720's architecture. But, home to some famous nightclubs and notable residents.Can you name any? Meard Street, Soho Oil on canvas 24" × 16" Available from website, or DM for details.

My artist profile as an introduction.

Currently on the easel. A painting of Meard Street Soho on a rainy day that I started in February. But, somehow forgot all about and it got stacked amongst a load of other canvases. I'm currently doing more abstract landscapes, so it's nice to be working on something more realistic for a few days.

Quite an abstract one for this view of the brutalist Brunswick Centre. I'm blaming the heat. Brunswick Oil on board 32" × 24" #brutalism #brutalistarchitecture #modernistlondon #brutalistart #abstractmodern

A newish painting. I started it back in March, but only just finished it. Another view of the National Theatre on the Southbank. Southbank III Oil on canvas 28" × 20" Soon to be available from my website. Or DM me now. #southbanklondon #urbanlandscapeart #brutalistarchitecture #brutalism

An old painting from 2024, but fits with my current series of paintings that take urban scenes and simplify them to defined geometric forms. Post Office Tower Acrylic on canvas 24" × 16" #postofficetower #precisionism #modernistlondon #londonart #bttower

New painting. Rooftops SW1 Oil on canvas 16" × 16" As I sat in traffic in Knightsbridge, I looked up and saw the evening sun catching all the chimney stacks and rooftops above the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. #rooftoppainting #londonart #precisionism #londonrooftops #paintingsoflondon

They say, "paint what you love", and I love the art made by British artists in the late 40's, early 50's. And my latest painting I think has a hint of post-war aesthetics. Albeit of a very modern view of the City of London. City Panorama Oil on canvas 24" × 16" Available soon on my website.

Another new painting in my series of cubist style paintings of brutalist architecture. This one is of the Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury. In the late 80s I lived just across the road and regularly did my washing in the laundrette there. Perspective Brunswick Oil on canvas 18" × 18"

A new painting added to my website, part of my series that I'm calling Modern Cubism. Southbank II Oil on canvas 24" × 16" A painting of the National Theatre on London's Southbank. Painted in an abstract cubist style to convey the blocks and shadows of the brutalist architecture.

I can laugh about it now, but the stress caused by DPD, who over a month ago lost my painting Southbank I in transit to my customer. Then, eventually retrieve it only to keep it in their depot for 11 days with no action! The Wanted poster is a homage to Freud's stolen painting of Francis Bacon.

A reminder that my studio clearout sale ends on Sunday. But, also a reminder that you can buy my paintings of Soho. Like this doorway which is sadly a victim of regeneration and no longer exists. Please visit my website (link in bio), or message me! Sleazy Soho Doorway Oil on canvas 24" × 16"

Today's featured painting in my studio clearout sale is a large portrait depicting the feeling of suppressed rage and frustration that can sometimes be felt within. If you're interested in this painting, it is available on my website via the link in my bio. Suppression Oil on board 81cm × 61cm

A painting available in my studio clearout sale is this portrait of a woman with interesting tattoos. I painted a grisaille monochromatic underlayer. It gives the skin tone a nice luminosity. For sale at a reduced price on my website. Link in bio. Woman With Tattoos Oil on canvas 50cm × 50cm

As today was Record Store Day, here's a little oil painting of one of my favourite record shops, Reckless Records in Berwick Street. Reckless Records Oil on board 18cm × 13cm #recklessrecords #brewerstreet #recordstore #sohorecordshop #recordstoreday

Disappointed to see the neon lights of La Bodega Negra no longer in Old Compton Street. I always intended to paint them on a rainy night with the reflections bouncing off the pavement. Thankfully, I have painted a scene of them, with a couple kissing outside. Soho Kiss Oil on canvas 28" × 20"

Today's featured painting in my Spring Studio Sale is a quirky one, as it's a self-portrait, and inspired by the story from Greek mythology of Selene, the Moon goddess, who fell in love with a human on Earth called Endymion. Apparently they had 50 kids!! The Lunatic Oil on board 55cm × 46cm

This mornings featured painting in my Spring Studio Sale (link in bio) is this experimental oil of a trumpet player that I painted trying to emulate the style of Francis Bacon. Jazz Trumpeter Oil on canvas 20" × 16"

Another painting I've never shown before and now available to buy in my studio clearout sale (link in bio) is this expressive intensely coloured nude of a figures limbs curled in a foetal position. Painted using expressive spontaneous brush work. Containment Oil on canvas 24" × 18" #fauvism