Bruce Wright – portfolio

Contact the artist

https://www.bwright.co.uk
07969 802409
brucewright720[a]gmail.com

Exhibition information

Watercolour painting has been at the heart of my work for many years, over which I’ve developed and refined my style. I enjoy the simplicity of a play of light on still or moving water, through clouds onto landscapes or human-made objects. There are infinite possibilities of how and what to create.  My usual subject matter is rural, coastal or city landscapes, flowers and still lives.

As a rule, I have no rules. I prefer not to be too refined in my works, or to stick to a rigid format of approach, instead creating an idea or a suggestion of a view, while leaving plenty of freedom in the mind of the viewer to reflect.

Of late I am focussing my attention on mixing colours to study the relationships of shapes of colour in space, suggesting film-like atmospheres and producing what I call ‘thinkers’ paintings’.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artist information

In my foundation course at Southampton I learned the techniques to use across a variety of media. I enjoyed the creation of structured figurative drawings, usually in charcoal, focussing on figure drawings and studies of industrial sites around Southampton. I worked additionally on still lives and portraits. I built my portfolio to include small acrylics and oils. When I studied for my degree at West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, my work became more abstract and philosophical.

In a subsequent job buying and selling art for a gallery in London I became fascinated by well-executed watercolours by artists such as Frank Wootton, Arthur Weaver, Terence Cuneo and other accomplished illustrative artists of the 1960’s and 70’s.   I still find this type of work inspirational. At the same time I have studied the works of the Scottish Colourists such as Samuel Peploe, as well as of John Hoyland, Ivon Hitchens and  Howard Hodgkins.

My day job is photographing fine art and antiques, so I am immersed in the making of images;  composition is key. For me, photography deals with content and painting is  creating from within. When not photographing or painting, I enjoy exploration of the natural world – whether close at hand in our own garden, or through travels in the UK and Europe – and architecture, consciously or subconsciously assimilating ideas for more painting.