l have always thought my studio time is like a meditation – it’s just that the time painting goes so fast. Even if l miss a day in the studio l feel l need to draw, it’s like somehow trying to document your day. – Peter Wegner 2021
Peter Wegner’s works are compelling and poignant representations of moments experienced.
His revered and renowned oil paintings of the battered and worn armchairs that occupy his work space are masterful renderings of monumental forms that consist of emptiness. Each of these chairs bears the marks and scars of their particular history, and through Wegner’s close observation and reverence for his subject, we feel the sitter profoundly present in the representation of their absence.
As Robert Nelson perceptively writes: ‘Wegner’s way of painting is congruent with the subject matter. The irregularity of the old chairs is painterly in itself, with tears and incidents riddling their form. The tendency of the upholstery to break up or gather a patina of grazes and bumps compares with Wegner’s idiom, which is battered by the brush, full of movement and change, a demonstrative give and take with thrust and slide that works happily with the weathered textures of the furniture.’
This exhibition showcases an exquisite series of recent armchair paintings as well as magnificent large scale portraits in oil.
Image: Cover of Spectrum, The Age, October 30 2021 We asked Archibald winner Peter Wegner to paint himself at 100. …
Image above: Close-up detail of Portrait Magazine featuring Peter Wegner’s drawings of Marg Mossop (2015) and Hilda Heley (2015) In …
Above image: Peter Wegner Portrait of Guy Warren at 100 oil on canvas 120.5 x 151.5 cm Peter Wegner has won …
Above image: Indian Sketchbook 1 water colour and gouache 70 cm x 30 cm Dr. Maryanne Coutts will share her …
Above Image: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Michael Snape Become The Part 2022 200 cm x 100 cm x 300 cm Congratulations …
Above image: Terry Matassoni Lockdown 2021-22 pencil on paper 76 x 102 cm Congratulations to Maryanne Coutts and …
Above Image: Camie Lyons ‘Path of a Meandering Soul’ bronze 2021 700 cm x 300 cm The Langham, Gold …
Jenny Rodgerson Self portrait 2022 oil on linen Congratulations to Jenny Rodgerson and Christine Wrest-Smith who have been selected …
Peter Wegner Bill Gregory 2022 Benalla 2022 pencil and beeswax on paper 64 x 48 cm In July, Benalla Art …
Jenny Rodgerson Vegan in a leather coat 2022 oil on linen Congratulations to Glenn Morgan and Jenny Rodgerson, who have …
Above image: Janet Luxton On Mount Olympus 2022 oil on Belgian linen 150 x 130 cm Congratulations to Janet Luxton …
Colin Lanceley Chablis 1980-81 oil, mixed media and wood on canvas 143 x 220 x 18 cm (Image © the …
Sue Anderson Keep awesome, Tanglewood 2014 oil on linen 90 x 110 cm Sue Anderson’s solo exhibition Keep awesome …