Stig Weye

Stig Weye b. 1946 is an alchemist of colours, who conjures up paintings of the most brilliant and glowing colours. He paints thin, transparent layers of acrylic and fernis alternating, and mixes dragons blood and magic in pigments, making his works seeming to be under water. Stigs motifs are loaded with stories of everyday life, music, tales, carnival, myths and religion. ”Youth was jazz”, says Stig, and he played both bass, piano and the trumpet, and toured with bands like Leonardo Petersens and Søndergaard/Neehammer. Even though music still flows in Stigs veins, he changed for art painting with the ambitious words: ”It is a scary lack of paintings in this world, and I am going to try to change that.”