Peter Wegner's exhibition "Paintings in the Studio" May 2021

For Peter Wegner, the studio is a place of thought, of focus, of solace. Whether painting one of the chairs or couches he shares the space with, or a person sitting in one of the chairs, he is constantly aware of light and its interaction with the surface he is observing. His loving homages to the histories inherent in the ageing furniture he depicts are sometimes grand in scale, but always rich with painted surface. As he explains to Richard Morecroft, the chairs and couches on his canvases are - more than anything - vehicles for the paint, delivered with a sensual reverence and deep celebration.
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