Wade Powell

Inspired by the enduring spirit of the Texas Hill Country, Rooted reflects the resilience and quiet strength found in both the land and the life it sustains. The longhorn and wild lantana stand together as symbols of beauty shaped by heat, hardship, and time.

Painted in the days leading up to Easter, Morning Has Broken captures the first light rising over a small Texas church. The painting reflects the quiet hope and renewal found in sacred places shaped by generations of worship and memory.

Inspired by a familiar low water crossing on Beaver Creek in Mason County, Texas, this painting reflects the deep connection between memory, family, and place. The creek has carried generations of stories, holding both the movement of water and the stillness of reflection. Accepted to the 2026 San Antonio Art League /Museum juried exhibition.

Layered granite river beds and shallow Hill Country water reveal the quiet beauty shaped by time and erosion. Carved by Grace reflects the unseen depth beneath both the landscape and the human spirit.

Inspired by quiet summer afternoons spent floating in Beaver Creek, this painting captures the simple joy of a Labrador retriever living fully in the moment. It reflects the peace, companionship, and rhythm of life along the water in the Texas Hill Country.

Painted from Mission Espíritu Santo in Goliad, Texas, this work reflects the layered history and enduring faith embedded in the Texas landscape. The weathered stone walls stand as witnesses to both resilience and memory across generations.

This Hill Country scene explores the meeting of stone, water, and light along a quiet creek bed. The painting reflects the hidden depth and stillness often found beneath the surface of both landscapes and lives.

Painted in honor of the chapel at Southwestern University, this work reflects the role sacred spaces play in shaping personal journeys and lifelong connections. The chapel stands as both a place of worship and a marker of memory, vocation, and belonging.

Created as a commissioned Christmas gift, Golden Fields was inspired by a simple tradition shared between a husband and wife — stopping along country roads to admire fields scattered with round hay bales beneath expansive skies. After years of searching for a painting that captured that feeling, the collector commissioned this piece to preserve the quiet beauty, warmth, and memory of those drives together.

Inspired by an Easter sunrise service at Bethany United Methodist Church in Austin, this painting captures the quiet beauty of dawn breaking over the church grounds. It reflects themes of renewal, hope, and the sacred stillness of early morning worship.

This painting depicts the old milk cow barn that stood beside a rural church where I once served as pastor. Along with a smokehouse and spring house nearby, it was part of an earlier rhythm of Texas church life where faith, land, and daily labor existed side by side. The weathered structure and filtered light reflect the quiet endurance of places shaped by generations of ordinary devotion.