Peter Browne was born in 1947 in West Wyalong NSW.
Peter Browne claims to have been found under a sheet of tin in West Wyalong around 1947. Raconteur and scallywag, Peter moved into a ruin at Silverton and established it’s first art gallery, where he held court for travellers entertaining them in his almost roofless “renovated “ ruin for many years.
Pete says he gets his inspiration more from the people he meets than the landscape, and there is certainly no shortage of tourists to his gallery at Silverton Heights (on the top of the hill). His style is after Drysdale (slightly) and his paintings reflect the humour of the bushman and he says “they have three ingredients, humour, Aussie flavour, and emus.
Peter’s medium, oil, has been inflicted not only on canvas but on tourists cars, coaches, and his own beloved Volkswagons. Many a weary traveller has returned home only to find an emu embellishing some part on his car.
Of late, Pete has tired somewhat of his public life and has now become reclusive. He no longer drives a car, choosing to bicycle around the country and of late has been of no particular abode travelling extensively at home and abroad. Whether in Broken Hill, Bali, or Beijing Peter continues to paint and supply his gallery with a range of his inimitable oil paintings.
Peter takes a light hearted approach to everything, including his artwork and has been known to cut paintings in half for people seeking a 50% discount. He continues to pride himself in the fact that he has managed to keep his paintings out of the national gallery and he states that once he left his curriculum vitae out of the fridge and it went off. An encounter with this artist is like an encounter with one of his paintings and visa versa.
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