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Paul Wright Family of the Future | Paul Wright A Man of the Hesperus 2010 | Paul Wright A New Hope |
Paul Wright He Lives in a Hotel 2010 | Paul Wright The Teacher | Paul Wright Pause in Life |
Paul Wright 70's Chair | Paul Wright Divided we Stand United we Fall 2010 | Paul Wright at The Modern Artists Gallery |
Paul Wright Woman, Stream, Dress - after Rembrandt, from Hendrickje bathing in a stream | Paul Wright Self Portrait after Rembrandt - 2010 | Paul Wright The Taking of Christ - after Caravaggio - 2009 |
Paul Wright Yellow Head 1 | Paul Wright Night Nude | Paul Wright The Death of Age - 2009 |
Paul Wright Layered Head - 2009 | Paul Wright Lost in Academia | Paul Wright Smallest face |
Paul Wright Landscape with Yellow Clouds 2006 | Paul Wright Autumn Landscape | Paul Wright Emerging Man - 2009 |
Paul Wright Blue Profie - 2009 | Paul Wright Yellow Head 1 | Paul Wright Pear |
Paul Wright Yellow and Red | Paul Wright Kissing | Paul Wright Fish out of Water |
Paul Wright Sofa | Paul Wright After Degas | Paul Wright The Broken Television |
Paul Wright Sunday Afternoon | Paul Wright Memory | Paul Wright Magnificent Marble Melting Mug |
Paul Wright Large Bottle | Paul Wright Flowers | Paul Wright Harbour - 2009 |
Paul Wright From Chelsea - 2009 | Paul Wright Self Portrait Seated - 2009 | Paul Wright Double Self Portrait |
Paul Wright A Relationship | Paul Wright Inigo | Paul Wright Alan Duncan MP |
Paul Wright Green Head | Paul Wright TheYoungest | Paul Wright A new portrait |
Paul Wright Dame Kelly Holmes | Paul Wright Boots | Boots- late evening lll |
Paul Wright Sharon with a headband | Paul Wright - Little Portrait | Paul Wright Portrait of Ian. Selected for BP Portrait Awards Exhibition 2006 |
Paul Wright A man from Oxford/2 | Paul Wright James | Paul Wright Austin Healey |
Paul Wright Mark Mellor | Paul Wright Big Small Painting | Paul Wright Head of a Proud Man |
Paul Wright Mark | Gallery image featuring Paul Wright and Angela Lizon paintings | Paul Wright Modern Artists Gallery image Gallery |
PAUL WRIGHT ARCHIVES
Paul Wright
'In less than 10 years Paul Wright has emerged as an accomplished and immensely talented artist and a defiant standard-bearer for the fundamental qualities of technique, craftsmanship, colour and texture in painting. Although he is clearly influenced by the best traditions of fine art, his approach is individual, contemporary and powerful' Darryl McCarthy - Paul Wright Paintings
The approach to Paul Wright’s wittily-named Wright Boot Studio is unconventional. A
narrow doorway in the yard of a working Victorian warehouse leads you to a well-worn service lift that climbs slowly to the top floor, where this young artist has created a surprisingly bright and open space. There’s no inspiring view from the skylights; instead, it’s the array of Paul’s work around the walls that commands your immediate attention. His signature portraits are lined up like a welcoming party, their gaze coming at you from all angles. They number his closest family and friends, chance encounters and even those who have come forward unprompted to have their likeness captured. Darryl McCarthy 2004 - Art Critic
In 2006 The Modern Artists Gallery submitted Portrait of Ian to
the BP National Portrait Awards (Britain's premier award for Portrait
Artists) held at London's National Portrait Gallery. Paul Wright was a
finalist in his highly prestigious competition.
Paul Wright skills are widely recognised and appreciated and last year he was included for the first time in the BP National Portrait Award selection, displayed at London’s National Portrait Gallery ahead of a nationwide tour. The piece chosen is characteristic of his work: Ian is a compact portrait of a close friend that, although small in dimensions, is exceptionally powerful in content. Paul Wright has a masterful technique: bold, thick strokes are applied with confidence and economy, using a rich palette and creating a wonderful texture.
Style does not overwhelm the content, however, but gives a sharp focus to character and mood. The viewer is brought into the private world of the subject to ponder on his or her inner thoughts; with little or no background detail, there is nothing to distract from the creation of a direct and, at times, even intimate relationship.
Paul himself is open, humorous and enthusiastic about his work, his family and, to his further credit, cricket. On first acquaintance, it is easy to understand how he manages to build a trust in his subjects that allows them to so evidently relax and reveal their inner selves to the artist’s eye.
In capturing character, Paul Wright has occasionally shifted his focus from the face to look to explore the qualities that can be found in a person’s clothes, in particular shoes and boots. The way he captures the creases of a well-worn pair of brogues, or the folds and stains on a pair of the artist’s overalls again leads the viewer into the private world of the wearer. In the studio, this aspect of his work is reflected in discarded jeans and odd shoes scattered rather comfortingly, as if in a student bedsit.
Not all his canvases are small and, perhaps as a means of breaking out of the intensity of his portraiture, Paul has embarked on a series of cloudscapes. These brilliant, open works give the artist breathing space and the opportunity to apply his technique and colour to a totally different subject.
Mastery of a fine technique and great artistic perception combine to make Paul Wright an artist of uncommon accomplishment and talent.
DARRYL McCARTHY 2006 Art Journalist, Art Critic and Art Collector
Education
1992 - 1995 B.A Illustration Falmouth School of Art
1991 - 1992 Foundation Studies Loughborough College of Art & Design
Post Grad.
1995 - 1999 Living and working in Leicester
1999 - 2002 Living and working in Bristol
2002 - 2004 Knighton Lane Studios Leicester
2004 - 2005 Studio in the LCB Depot Leicester
2005 - present Studio in the Russko Building Leicester
Exhibitions and Achievement
2011 Paul Wright Ongoing Artist at The Modern Artists Gallery Berkshire
2011 The London Art Fair 2011, Islington, London
2010 Paul Wright Solo 2010 Modern Artists Gallery Berkshire
2010 The Campden Gallery Glos. Solo Exhibition
2010 Texas State University USA, Artist in Residence
2010 Thompsons Gallery London
2009 The Discerning Eye Exhibition, London
2009 Paul Wright Paintings Artist’s Monograph
2009 - Present - Invited Lecturer Loughborough University
2009 The Bristol Gallery, Bristol, New Contemporaries 1
2008 Thompsons Gallery London
2007 Mall Galleries, London, Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
2007 Commission 21 paintings for P&O
2006 National Portrait Gallery London BP Portrait Award Exhibition
2006 Modern Artists Gallery Berkshire Paul Wright Recent Paintings
2005 Saltburn Artists Projects, Middlesborough, Grounding the Figure
2005 Paul Wright's Portrait of Eddie Isaacs M.B.E, British Rail Leicester Train Station
2004-2005 Public Mural and Sculpture Commission for Braunstone Health & Social Centre Leicester
2003 Paul Wright Portraits Modern Artists Gallery Berkshire
2003 Phoenix Arts Touring Exhibition Decorating the Face
2003 Worksop College Nottinghamshire Artist in Residence
2001-2002 Naked Exhibition Kaleidoscope Gallery London
2001 Annual Exhibition Plymouth Museum
2001 Open Exhibition Royal West of England Academy
2001 Painting Triennial Artists Exhibition Royal West of England Academy
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