JOHANNA PEGLER
Angiosperm Whale
19/08/23 — 14/09/23
Angiosperm Whale
19/08/23 — 14/09/23
Johanna Pegler’s ANGIOSPERM WHALE mixes references to fruiting, flowering plants and great undersea creatures. Angiosperm comes from the Greek angeion meaning vessel, and spermos meaning seed. Each patiently made painting is composed of a multitude of tiny brushstrokes and animated by arboreal drama. Pegler paints trees as florescent marvels, protective umbrellas and benevolent companions. She says, “Trees are the whales of the land.”
Johanna Pegler was born in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in 1965. After graduating from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau in 1987, she spent 15 years living and painting at Waikawau Bay at the remote North Eastern tip of the Coromandel. In 2004 after being awarded the Sarjeant Art Gallery Tylee Residency, she relocated to Whanganui where she has lived ever since. Pegler is recognised as a producer of mysterious, transporting paintings founded on a distinctive feeling for unsung aspects of the local landscape.
Evening Out, 2023
Oil on board 600 x 900mm
Evening Out (detail)
Planktonic, 2023
Oil on board, 1200 x 1000mm
Planktonic (detail)
Baleen, 2023
Oil on board, 600 x 600mm
Baleen (detail)
Flying Fog, 2023
Oil on board, 600 x 800mm
Flying Fog (detail)
Graze, 2023
Watercolour and ink on paper, 540 x 525mm (framed)
Cocoon, 2023
Watercolour and ink on paper, 540 x 525mm (framed)
Sweep, 2022
Watercolour and ink on paper, 540 x 525mm (framed)
Smokescreen, 2022
Watercolour and ink on paper, 540 x 630mm (framed)
Sea Senõrita, 1999
Oil on archival paper on stretcher, 1070 x 1370mm
Rio abajo rio, 1998
Oil on archival paper on stretcher, 1020 x 1220mm