Erwin's vision of the unique Australia lanscape shows a great depth of understanding for the beauty and complexity of natural systems that few painters capture.

Erwin Weber - Wilderness Artist

Erwin Weber is an Australian artist well known for his paintings and drawings of Australia's wilderness areas and cultural heritage.

His artistic sphere is remarkable, encompassing both landscapes and portraits from natural to the semi abstract with Erwin's signature loose fluid style.

He has been exhibiting artworks for over 30 years including high profile shows in support of campaigns to save some of Australia's great wild places including Fraser Island, The Border Ranges Rainforests and Lord Howe Island.

Erwins's paintings not only capture the iconic landscapes and wildlife of Australia they also reflect the changing social and political landscape and its people. In 1980 Australians were increasingly concerned with the conservation of their nations special natural areas. Erwin's exhibition of Lord Howe Island was opened by Neville Wran the Premier of New South Wales on the eve of the election. While opening the exhibition the Premier announced the nomination of the Island as a world heritage area, Lord Howe Island was later declared a world heritage area.

In 2000 Erwin's work became focused on the struggle for reconciliation of the modern culture of Australia with that of the Aboriginal people, the world's oldest culture. The new Australian Government showed its recognition of this issue when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave a formal apology to the indigenous people of Australia, marking a great milestone for Aboriginal Reconciliation and Australia's history.

Erwin is also a well known Architect and with his business Subtropic Solar Design has been designing high performance, zero emissions (carbon neutral) ecologically sustainable green buildings for over 30 years.

His Architecture focuses on Passive solar Built environments with fully integrated ecologically sustainable systems. Erwin lives with is family in Northern NSW, his home Art Studio and Organic Farm is Energy, water and Sewerage independent and has a long term Carbon Positive footprint. All picture framing timbers are sustainably sourced.