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The Peter Browne Gallery offers artwork, prints, souvenirs and gift lines in the heart of the outback.
Original work from both Peter Browne and Rob Wellington are featured.
Peter Browne has come a long way since settling into a Silverton ruin and setting up a gallery.
After years of entertaining guests, tourists and travellers under the night sky - renovations did not extend as far as a rooftop - Peter says its people that provide his inspiration, rather than the landscape.
His style echoes Drysdale and his oil paintings reflect his three main ingredients: Aussie humor, flavor and emus.
Not content with canvas alone, Peter has taken a brush to cars, coaches and even his beloved Volkswagens. Travelling home from a visit with Peter, many a traveller has found a beautifully painted emu hitching a ride.
Growing reclusive of late, Pete has taken up the travelling life from himself, bicycling around the country and heading abroad.
He prides himself on keeping his work out of the National Gallery.
Beware his sense of humor however, asking for a 50 per cent discount might find you with half a painting!
Rob Wellington was the second oldest of 13 children. The obvious economic constraints of such an arrangement led him to leave home and work on farms out in the bush.
Despite the hard work, or perhaps because of it, Rob kept himself entertained at nights drawing, painting and sketching, as he had always done.
He dreamed of capturing the landscape in the bold, colorful manner of inspiration Sir Hans Heyson.
Rob was drawn to White Cliffs by his sense of adventure and love of color, and took up fossicking for opals, eventually deciding to settle there to paint and seek an opal-laden fortune.
He's a digger in the literal sense, having dug out an extensive underground home, opal mine and art gallery. It makes renovation easy. If he and his wife want a new room they simply dig another.
These days, Rob says he loves his lifestyle, considering his art as his profession and his mining a hobby.
While others spend four hours in the gym, he takes to digging each morning before starting work at the easel.
He has an extensive range of paintings for sale and they are included in many collections both in Australia and overseas.
The Peter Browne Gallery is open from 9am to 5pm, seven days a week.
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