Peter Wallers - Tauranga (Oil Landscape)

In New Zealand, landscape painting developed concurrently with our need to develop a national art that was specifically and characteristically of our country. What better way than to focus on those majestic landscapes surrounding us? Within our art history, landscape is something of a favourite genre, with many of our finest art practitioners working in the field.

Of all the painting genres, landscapes are the greatest of artistic illusions. The act of the landscape artist is Like a portrait painter capturing the essence of the sitter’s character, the landscape artist carefully arranges the elements of the landscape to capture the essential character of the land.

Peter Wallers is a landscape painter with a special ability to transform the great expanse of three dimensional landscapes into a canvas of paints and pigments. His paintings are like a window onto the world, as he captures highly-personal interpretation of the essence of a place. Waller’s work is the accumulation of over 30 years of observation and of honing his technique. The results are inspired landscapes which illustrate his perceptive ability to capture light, an exacting choice in subject and an absolute command over medium. Using a distinct Realist style, Peter pares back the details to make works which are crisp, clean, strong and most importantly, evocative of our New Zealand surrounds.

Waller’s works in oils and specialises in landscape and coastal scenes.  The artist is concerned with the structures and relics of New Zealand’s comparably young past. Especially in our current climate of global warming, environmental issues and increasing urbanization, Waller’s objective is to record images of rural New Zealand before they disappear.

Wallers’s paintings are a deft demonstration of the landscape artist’s ability to enthrall us and to convincingly capture a slice of the world that surrounds us. His understanding of the effect of light on landscape and spare visual language create strong and lasting impressions of our country that stay with the viewer long after they close that window onto the world.