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This is our first solo exhibition for PEI artist Hans Wendt. Wendt is known for his large-scale photo-realistic watercolour paintings of common objects found in an artist’s studio. Our exhibition features 9 new watercolour paintings of carefully composed cut, ripped, folded and torn paint samples. Painted trompe l’oeil, the work shifts between photorealism, abstraction, minimalism and conceptual art.

Wendt describes the act of painting as a celebration and that, as a painter, you cannot escape the history of painting or history of abstraction in the process. In the past, he has looked to …