Watters Gallery will soon be hosting works by Max Watters at its Sydney venue. The exhibition will be on view through July 21.Describing the works of Max Watters, Geoffrey Legge, co-owner of Watters Gallery, says, “Extraordinary as it seems, Max Watters gets on with his own paintings without any reference to or influence from his art collection. With frightening concentration he shuns all outside influences. Before we consider the paintings of Max Watters, it is important to understand the obsessive drive that has inspired their creation.”Watters specialized in buildings and environment of the Hunter Region. His paintings feature houses, farm sheds, barns, outhouses, churches and schools within the Hunter Valley. Legge says: “In each of his painting, one would notice a building surrounded by farmland which is often bordered by native bush against a background of mountains. In other words, superficially all the paintings have a similar subject matter, but we must remember that it is not unusual for a painter to find investigations confined to one subject absolutely inexhaustible.”Composition is key to Watters’ paintings. Legge writes, “It is drama that imbues his work with strongly felt significance. In his vision a painting must be construed not as ‘a house in a landscape’ but as ‘a house and a landscape.’ And certainly it is the inspired control of composition in which much of Max Watters’ magic lies.”Max Watters, a visual artist, was born in 1936 and has had several solo and group shows. He started painting in the late 1950s and was encouraged by his older brother Frank, who moved to Sydney and eventually opened a gallery with Geoffrey Legge. In 1992, he was awarded the OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia) for his services to art. A passionate visual artist, Watters has offered art classes locally in Sydney.The exhibition will be on view from July 3 through July 14, 2018, at Watters Gallery, 109 Riley Street, Sydney NSW 2010.For details, visit: http://www.wattersgallery.com Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibitionhttp://www.blouinartinfo.comFounder Louise Blouin
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