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Contemporary, experimental paintings and drawings from the figure, presented as oil paintings or watercolours, and in gouache, pencil, conte and ink.

Male and female nudes are well represented, along with landscapes, interiors and seascapes. Studies of the moving figure as drawings, oil paintings, watercolours and gouache. Works on paper and canvas, prints, sculpture and ceramic wall pieces.

All work is original and signed by this British artist Peter Wright working in Cornwall, UK, and established in the field of modern figurative painting.

Work may be purchased directly from the artist and delivered to any part of the world, er… almost.

Summer Fields 800ft
Gouache, 57 x 34 cm

It gets more difficult to define "art" year by year, as young artists struggle to come up with something new and shocking. Is an unmade bed art, and how about members of the public standing on a plinth for an hour at a time? Perhaps it hardly matters…

Making art is an inseparable part of my involvement with the 'real' world. The creative process has its roots in day-to-day observation of form, colour, and relationships of one 'thing' with another. Intensive looking and drawing might deepen that observation into a greater understanding. After reflection and trying out ideas, exploring and developing them with rough sketches and compositions, these images mysteriously evolve into the final work.

I use 'Photoshop' and a graphics pad as part of the process of pictorial development. This new tool for artists and designers enables fast experimentation with immediate, intuitive ideas, both on work that is already in train, and in generating completely fresh images on the monitor. Work on canvas can be photographed, and then be immediately available on screen where alternative colours and tones can be tried out quickly and effortlessly.

The finished works are shared with people in the 'real' world. I make my art from conventional artist's materials, or from anything that will serve the purpose. For supports I generally use canvas, heavy watercolour paper and board, and on these I apply collage, paint, ink, or whatever may be to hand and which 'fits'.

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