Lot 008
Wayne Viney ‘Fiery Sky’
Original Wayne Viney oil on board, framed by the artist in a wooden box frame.
Wayne Viney is a Melbourne based printmaker and painter best known for his hauntingly evocative twilight studies. Monotypes are his preferred medium. He was introduced to the technique in the early 1980s and has found the medium best suited to his depictions of landscape and natural light effects. His work has gradually become more simplified and devoid of obvious physical reference points with greater emphasis now on colour. Wayne Viney has been a finalist in numerous awards and prizes, including the Geelong Acquisitive Print Award in 1999 and 2009, Banyule Works on Paper Award 2003, 2005 and 2009, R & M McGivern Art Prize 2006, Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award 2002, Hutchins Art Prize 1998 and 2000, National Works on Paper Award (Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery) 1998 and 2000 and the Fremantle Print Award 1998.
His work is held in public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Parliament House Collection (Canberra), Orange Regional Gallery (NSW) and Charles Sturt University (NSW).
A retrospective exhibition of his monotypes is planned for 2012.
He specializes in small beautiful box framed images like these. Paintings ranged from $1450 to $1900 five years ago. Three years before then they sold for $950.
