Feed: Culture | The Guardian
Posted on: Friday, March 18, 2022 7:31 PM
Author: Tim Jonze
Subject: 'Nobody can even find a photograph of him. He's quite mysterious' – OMD's Andy McCluskey on Maurice Wade
| The Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark founder fell in love with the British painter's empty landscapes – and convinced Robbie Williams to buy one. He explains their melancholic beauty Andy McCluskey remembers vividly the first time he came up close and personal with a Maurice Wade painting. The Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark co-founder was at a gallery in Hale, Cheshire, enquiring about a different artwork altogether when it stopped him in his tracks. "I walked in and there it was, BOOM!" he says. "His paintings have a resonance for me on so many levels: the stark sense of black and white, the industrial landscapes, the melancholy … I just went, 'Woooah.'" And then? |