Wes Walters

Wes(ley) Walters (1928-2014) was an Australian artist and winner of the Archibald Prize.

[2] He was awarded the Minnie Crouch Prize at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 1953 and 1956.

He won the 1979 Archibald prize in 1980 with a portrait of Phillip Adams.

Although Walters had been painting in a non-figurative style since the early 1960s, he did not hold his first exhibition of abstract works until 2001.

In 2009 the book 'Walters: art of realism & abstraction' by David Thomas was published.