Michael Wallner

City of Surprises 2, limited edition print, cityscape, London

2023

City of Surprises is created from an original photograph taken from Greenwich Park. It features one of my favourite views of the London skyline - boasting some of the city’s most famous landmarks in a single line with one small difference - for legal reasons. The London Eye, Shard, BT Tower, St Paul’s Cathedral, and the Cheesegrater are all there, alongside one building that I’ve been asked not to feature in my work by its lawyers. Can you spot it? I love the shapes of the view’s outline so I have replaced the building that shall not be named with the head of shark. The ‘new’ London skyline is then laser-cut into gold mirror. City of Surprises is made to order. It can usually be created and delivered in around 3 weeks. Michael Wallner has artworks for sale online and in our gallery with Wychwood Art. Michael has spent more than twenty years in the media industry working on entertainment programmes, talk shows, documentaries, animations and a children’s novel. But creating original and innovative art is his true passion. His latest work celebrates the beauty of the city through the shapes, outlines and colours that define its character. London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Miami, Paris and Dubai all feature in Michael’s portfolio. The art is created by digitally manipulating and colouring his own photographs to produce unusual prints on aluminium, reclaimed wood, brass, even 1930’s copper-lite windows. He also creates neon, magnetic, and L.E.D installations. The metal pieces are printed on very thin sheets of brushed aluminium, giving the work an etched appearance. Michael works out of his studio at Wimbledon Art...

City of Surprises By Michael Wallner [2020] limited_edition Laser-cut gold mirror Edition number 15 Image size: H:50 cm x W:135 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:50 cm x W:135 cm...

Michael Wallner, Little London: St Paul’s (aqua blue), framed brushed aluminium print, 25 x 18 x 3 cm approx, limited edition of 30. I love the beautiful lines, shapes and intricate patterns in the dome of London’s most famous cathedral. This piece of art is created from my original photograph, digitally manipulated to trace the dome’s outlines and coloured by hand on a graphics tablet. The image is then printed directly on a small piece of brushed aluminium, which gives the piece an etched appearance. The design of the dome itself appear as aluminium lines. The metal print is floated in hand-painted waxed wood frame. The piece is from my Little London collection: “Celebrate the Big Smoke...

Artist Michael Wallner says: "The beautiful 1930s Art Deco masterpiece and probably my favourite building in Manhattan (alongside Grand Central Station). Its repeated patterns, glimm...

'Bibendum' by Michael Wallner [2019] limited_edition Brushed aluminium Edition number 25 Image size: H:60 cm x W:100 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:100 cm x D:0.3cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. "'Bibendum', or Michelin...

National Theatre, Teal By Michael Wallner [2019] limited_edition Brushed aluminium Edition number 25 Image size: H:60 cm x W:145 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:145 c...

By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern la...

From 'Eight Landscapes' (Cristea 19). One of ten Artist's Proofs aside from the edition of 40. 2000, signed in pencil, inscribed 'AP4/10' in black ball-point pen verso. Lambda prin...

"I am primarily driven by an exploration of colour and form. My objective is to bring an emotional is to bring an emotional element and aesthetic balance to my work." "It came to me in the middle of the night - as these things often do - that to incorporate gold leaf into the finished print would neatly encapsulate some of the elements I am trying to express. Its application would obviously have to be done by hand with all its attendant imperfections and mistakes. Kintsugi - the Japanese art of patching broken ceramics with gold - shares its aesthetic with Wabi Sabi." - Valda Bailey...

Artist Commentary: Most people notice the LOVE sign first. I know I did when I came upon this scene. I had just finished photographing a wedding and was walking back to my car. I lov...

Patty deGrandpre’s “Sitting on the Seawall with Sand in Your Suit (Devereux Beach)” is a contemporary 31 x 40 x 1 inch digital inkjet print on aluminum representing the coastline of ...

Patty deGrandpre’s “Walking the Causeway to Marblehead Neck (tough summer feet)” is a contemporary 31 x 40 x 1 inch digital inkjet print on aluminum representing the coastline of the New England town of Marblehead, Massachusetts. This unique one of a kind piece is an abstract depiction of a lighthouse, a beach chaise...