Artist Werner was born in Austria in 1943. In 1950 Werner with his family migrated to Australia where his father established an importation business bringing in hair care products for many hairdressing saloons. Whilst Werner is by trade a hairdresser his great love of his new country inspired him to paint. At first painting was just a hobby.

However A growing reputation coupled with the crisp, refreshing style Werner has created, has bought him considerable sales success, particularly with investment conscious art buyers. More recently Werner was forced to devote more and more time to his father's business and so less and less of his paintings were seen on the market place. However a chance meeting with one of Australia's greatest art marketers and promoters, saw Werner's work being refocused into painting.

Werner's work is sold through selected galleries and the art print market. He is mainly self taught and is a dedicated traditionalist artist painting mainly in oils and specialising in rural and coastal scenes. He loves to paint Sydney Harbour. This has seen many of his paintings go to overseas homes as tourists see Sydney's wonderful harbour and beach views and then want a painting to take home.

Lately Werner has incorporated figurative work into his paintings. What makes this work different to most figurative artists is that Werner uses his landscape skills to place the figures of girls and ladies into natural landscapes. Thus you have the best of both worlds, a lovely figure and a landscape or seascape.

Werner's unique style has always been popular with art lovers but as a result of the subjects he paints they have an almost magnetic attraction for overseas visitors. As a result a large percentage of his paintings adorn the walls of homes in many countries throughout the world. Until now most of Werner's work has been sold through galleries in Sydney and from an Annual exhibition at Kings College in Sydney where his children attended school. He is now a patron of the college.

Now his work is only being sold through six selected investment galleries. During his exhibitions in our other capital cities and has won numerous awards and highly commended citations. He has been selected to have his paintings hung and has won awards at the Sydney Royal Show on numerous occasions. With many thousands of entries received each year, only the very best are chosen to be hung at this show and to win an award is an honour indeed.

Painting professionally since 1971, he has had numerous exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane. Many have been sellout exhibitions. Werner is a member of the Royal Art Society of NSW and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of History and Arts.