New Zealand "Spring Morning", by Malcolm Warr silkscreen. Numbered 94/120, print size 29 x 20.

Gallery owner Mary Ann Wenniger offers her unique silk and carborundum collagraph prints in a variety of subjects. Co-owner, Mace Wenniger is known for figurative watercolors. As owners of Wenniger gallery for over forty years, in three locations, they still offer many original fine prints from the world over: reasonably priced contemporary prints and vintage prints from the 1930's and 40's.

About Malcolm Warr

If you look behind a stage set you will see the bare wood frame and bare canvas of the stage flat. If there is to be excitement and magic it will be in front of the set with the lights on and actors present. Unless the artist was hard up and painted on two sides of the canvas you will see the same thing when you turn a painting over; a frame and bare canvas.

The paint on the front has very little value apart from the illusion it creates so a painting is a mind game. It is that game that is valuable, the arrangement of pigments that must somehow be decipherable into, into what? An agreed set or form of shapes, colours and symbols that can be read and which is a diary of the life and times of the artist. If the artist is also a great artist the images will hold part of the life and times of the community. I think that is what we respond to in a painting, a reinforcement of our lives and a remembrance of our lives for as long as we are able to read the image. The painting is a stage flat and we are the actors in front of it.

If you buy one of my paintings you may just inch me up that spectrum at the head of which lies greatness.

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MALCOLM WARR

1939 born in Wellington. 
1960 graduated Diploma of Fine Arts (Hons) from Elam         School of Fine Arts. 1961 worked as commercial artist. 
1962 trained as a Secondary School Teacher. 
1965 66 full time painter. 
1967 75 Secondary School Teacher. 
1977 winner, ANZ Printmakers' National Award, Te         Awamutu. 
1979 Merit Award, National Bank Watercolour Award,         Wellington. 
1981 Bank of New Zealand and New Zealand Academy         of Fine Arts Award (Printmaking). 
1983 Japan Foundation Short Term Visitor's Grant. Lives         Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

From 1975 until 1995, Warr was almost exclusively a printmaker. Since 1995 he has been painting in Oils and Watercolour.