Portrait and Landscape Paintings  2008  at The Modern Artists Gallery Berkshire

"My aim is to create a painterly language using brush-marks that have a presence and immediacy that captures the vitality of the subject"     Paul Wright

 

Education
Falmouth School of Art and Design.
Art and Design Foundation Loughborough College of Art and Design.

Exhibition

Selected  for BBC  One Television Series 'Star Portraits with Rolf Harris'  April 2007

2007 The Modern Artists Gallery Berkshire

2006 The TwoMan Show of Portrait and Landscape. Modern Artists Gallery Berkshire
2006  BP National Portrait Award Exhibition
2004  Cancer Awareness exhibition  Walkers Stadium Leicester
2003  4  visiting artist  Gateway College Leicester
2003  Artist in residence  Worksop College Nottinghamshire
2003  Present  Focal point interiors, Nottingham.
2003  Knighton Lane Artists Group, annual exhibition.
2003  Derby City Museum and Art Gallery.
2003   2004  Leicester City Gallery.
2003  Pheonix Arts, touring exhibition, "Decorating The Face".
2002   Knighton Lane Artists Group, Annual Exhibition.
2002  Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery.
2001  2002  Leicester City Gallery.
 

Paul Wright  'guide lines' for Corporate and Private  Commissions :
For commissions approx 20cm x 15cm copper or canvas  from £2,200  +  distance other expenses.
For commissions approx 70cm x 50cm copper or canvas from £3,000 +  distance and other expenses.
For commissions approx 110cm x100cm on canvas from £4,000 +  distance and other expenses.
For commissions approx 170cm x 140cm  from £5,000

 

Paul Wright is very  happy to paint  in your chosen location, however it is preferable that you travel to Leicester where his studio has been specially set up for  lighting.  Only one sitting is  usually required.   

Paul Wright paintings of Portraits and Landscapes are available to view and purchase at The Modern Artists Gallery Berkshire.

 
Darryl McCarthy reports on Paul Wright
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.

Paul’s 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 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 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


 Portrait of Ian  by the artist Paul Wright has been accepted for the National Gallery BP Portrait Award 2006.
The annual BP Portrait Award Exhibition  showcases the very best in contemporary portrait painting anywhere in the world.  The Award encourages young professional artists to focus upon, and develop the theme of portraiture within their work.

Paul Wright  Portrait and Landscape commissions -  please telephone The Modern Artists Gallery  for further information   Telephone:    +44 (0) 118 984 5893  (Reading Berkshire)  

email :  info@modernartistsgallery.com