And Sando Stroked the Wave as a Gesture of Thanks Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - And Sando Stroked the Wave as a Gesture of Thanks
And Sando Stroked the Wave as a Gesture of Thanks 2022
And Sando Stroked the Wave as a Gesture of ThanksWayne MagrinAnd Sando Stroked the Wave as a Gesture of Thanks
And Sando Stroked the Wave as a Gesture of Thanks2022
oil on board
153 x 153 cm
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And Then the Sea Turned that Green Colour and Monty Braced for What was to Come Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - And Then the Sea Turned that Green Colour and Monty Braced for What was to Come
And Then the Sea Turned that Green Colour and Monty Braced for What was to Come 2022
And Then the Sea Turned that Green Colour and Monty Braced for What was to ComeWayne MagrinAnd Then the Sea Turned that Green Colour and Monty Braced for What was to Come
And Then the Sea Turned that Green Colour and Monty Braced for What was to Come2022
oil on board
153 x 153 cm
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Erik the Viking Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Erik the Viking
Erik the Viking 2022
Erik the VikingWayne MagrinErik the Viking
Erik the Viking2022
oil on board
153 x 153 cm
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Another day at the office Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Another day at the office
Another day at the office 2022
Another day at the officeWayne MagrinAnother day at the office
Another day at the office2022
oil on board
153 x 153 cm
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Dangerous Daryl Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Dangerous Daryl
Dangerous Daryl 2022
Dangerous DarylWayne MagrinDangerous Daryl
Dangerous Daryl2022
oil on board
153 x 153 cm
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Doris and Bob at Split Point Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Doris and Bob at Split Point
Doris and Bob at Split Point 2022
Doris and Bob at Split PointWayne MagrinDoris and Bob at Split Point
Doris and Bob at Split Point2022
oil on board
153 x 153 cm
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Lightning Layla at Lighthouse Beach Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Lightning Layla at Lighthouse Beach
Lightning Layla at Lighthouse Beach 2022
Lightning Layla at Lighthouse BeachWayne MagrinLightning Layla at Lighthouse Beach
Lightning Layla at Lighthouse Beach2022
oil on board
153 x 153 cm
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Next Level Nikki Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Next Level Nikki
Next Level Nikki 2022
Next Level NikkiWayne MagrinNext Level Nikki
Next Level Nikki2022
oil on board
153 x 153 cm
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Susie Shines at Shipwreck Point Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Susie Shines at Shipwreck Point
Susie Shines at Shipwreck Point 2022
Susie Shines at Shipwreck PointWayne MagrinSusie Shines at Shipwreck Point
Susie Shines at Shipwreck Point2022
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153 x 153 cm
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Trevor and the Captain Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Trevor and the Captain
Trevor and the Captain 2022
Trevor and the CaptainWayne MagrinTrevor and the Captain
Trevor and the Captain2022
oil on board
153 x 153 cm
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Chisel Chin Cliff Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Chisel Chin Cliff
Chisel Chin Cliff 2022
Chisel Chin CliffWayne MagrinChisel Chin Cliff
Chisel Chin Cliff2022
oil on board
153 x 153 cm
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Sassy Sally Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Sassy Sally
Sassy Sally 2022
Sassy SallyWayne MagrinSassy Sally
Sassy Sally2022
oil on board
153 x 153 cm
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Arthur steers while Colin watches the dolphins Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Arthur steers while Colin watches the dolphins
Arthur steers while Colin watches the dolphins 2022
Arthur steers while Colin watches the dolphinsWayne MagrinArthur steers while Colin watches the dolphins
Arthur steers while Colin watches the dolphins2022
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153 x 153 cm
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Daisy D Wayne Magrin Wayne Magrin - Daisy D
Daisy D 2022
Daisy DWayne MagrinDaisy D
Daisy D2022
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153 x 153 cm
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TEXT BY JULIAN SCHNABEL 22 AUGUST 2022

What possesses people to make art? What to paint and how to paint it? Paintings can take on so many different appearances. When does the act of painting become something profound for the painter and the audience? I have found that the best work is the most personal.

Some years back I found myself in Palm Beach Australia in a friend’s home with many large paintings, none of which I was attracted to; but in a corner, a very tiny painting in a frame that was much bigger and thicker than the painting of a sailboat grabbed my attention. I asked to meet its author. The way Wayne Magrin put the paint down on that sail told me I had to look!

We met. Wayne paints narrative paintings on wood like a sign painter. Painting signs of life near and on the water. The manner and strength of these works invoke a memory of the 20th century, ribbons of fleeting moments of joy transformed into sturdy undecipherable narratives that take you along for the ride!

Since our first meeting, I have been constantly surprised and moved by Wayne’s imagination and the way he expresses it in paint on wood!

At first, I saw his small paintings and I begged him to make some larger works.

I have quite a few! You should see them.

Thank you, Wayne.

Julian Schnabel

August 22, 2022 li Galli Italy.

“On the other side of the North Pacific looking out to the port of Palm Beach Australia from the dock through weather and wind, Wayne has tried to paint every version and shape of spray and white water, in the frothy thick of it and in the distance too, painted on the wood of the sign painter - a durable and sturdy surface that receives the physical nature of Wayne’s free and succinct hand. The translation of what is seen and what it becomes is pure painting, direct, the original sin.”

Julian Schnabel HIS BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER MARITIME SEASCAPES The Arts Centre at Duck Creek East Hampton, New York May 11, 2021

“Wayne Magrin’s large scale representations of seafaring culture are painted in a style that combines the drama and energy of Marsden Hartley’s seascapes, with the flattened depth of field and minimal compositions employed by Milton Avery, and the emotional impact of Australian painter Sidney Nolan. “What is it about seascapes that pulls people in? When I was a child I used to draw boats over and over. Wayne’s paintings brought back the kid looking through a telescope searching for boats down by the water. The idea of it, trying to comprehend the sea with an accumulation of marks, light bouncing around, figuring out the shadows, the physical quality of the paintings painted on wood, like a sign painter, filling in the space of the memory and the desire to be part of the water. To be in it. I don’t understand it but I am drawn in. It is something like falling out of a tree when we are dreaming. They say it comes from our ancestors who used to live in trees.”

Charles Manion, Painter and Artist Montauk New York USA

HIS BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER - MARITIME SEASCAPES

The Arts Centre at Duck Creek East Hampton, New York August 2021

Two years ago I was staying at a friend’s house near the water in Palm Beach, Australia. There was a large room with many large works of Australian painters, and I noticed one small painting about 4 by 3 inches, of a sail. It could have been of anything. The painted marks flew over the tiny surface with great gesture and natural ease. I asked who painted this and where was the artist. “Up the block, he has a bacon and eggs breakfast spot on the beach.” “Can we see him?”

“Wayne was painting in a small widow's walk on the top of his house, and when I visited him the friend who had brought me there volunteered that Wayne had a story to go with each painting. I said “Let me look at the painting. I don't need to hear the story first.” I did. And loved the small paintings that he had made in his tower. And after looking, I read the stories. And the stories were good. Wayne is a narrative painter – inhabiting and traveling along in his imagination. The narration is a source of life, life at sea, imagery, content and the joy and discovery of the painted world.”

Julian Schnabel The Far Away and the Familiar (Narrative Paintings of Surfers, Sailors and Bushrangers) IBID Gallery Los Angeles California USA 2018

“Wayne Magrin: Seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water. Wayne is going to paint all of it. You've had to have been out there in the water to paint the sea like that.Ingrained in seafaring Wayne, imagined stories, remembered stories of being in the boat. He is the mountain, the sky, God's painted hand”.

Julian Schnabel. UNKNOWN - THE MAGNIFICENT 10 exhibition catalogue, The Ludwig Museum of Koblenz Germany, 2016.

Wayne Magrin

Born 1961, Sydney, Australia

Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

  • 'His Brother From Another Mother - Maritime Seascapes', The Arts Centre At Duck Creek, East Hampton, New York USA Curated by Julian Schnabel

2020

  • 'Time For A Break - Paintings Of Soulsurfers And A Legendary Bushranger', Office Reiner Opoku Showroom, Berlin Germany

2018

  • 'The Faraway And The Familiar (Narrative Paintings Of Surfers, Sailors And Bushrangers', IBID Gallery, Los Angeles, California USA Curated by Julian Schnabel

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

  • 'Relishing The Raw: Contemporary Artists Collecting Outsider Art', The Outsider Art Fair, New York City USA

2016

  • 'Unknown - The Magnificent 10', The Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Koblenz Germany

COLLECTIONS

  • Works held in private collections and institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and New Zealand

29 November 2022 – 28 February 2023
THE SUMMER SHOW

30 August 2022 – 17 September 2022
Wayne Magrin ‘New Surfer and Boat Paintings’