Tim Wright has been painting professionally for 30 years. He has worked as a lecturer in Fine Art at several London art schools, particularly Chelsea School Of Art and the Motley Theatre Design School. He lives and works in London. In recent years Wright has gravitated towards a reaffirmation of portrait painting and the power of the individual as subject. His work embodies the traditions of classical portraiture, yet Wright’s accurate, beautifully realised compositions feature a wonderfully contemporary cast of unknowns. Wright’s groups of figures are created from singular studies of his models, which he then assembles and reassembles in endless variations. In so doing he creates composite and temporary societies of strangers, which are at once complementary and conflicting, relaxed yet awkward. His figures – with the idiosyncrasies of their poise perfectly captured - speak of the subtlety of human interactions and of the self-consciousness of social settings. In so doing, Wright can be felt to comment on society as a construct, a jarring of our respective individuality, deftly exposing the social contracts that are necessitated by the sharing of space. Wright’s assured style is mirrored in the size and scale of his work, which embodies the significance of these hitherto anonymous characters. While the characters may be drawn from obscurity, they assume roles which show off their inner and outer lives in life- size grandeur. Wright has had numerous exhibitions and his work features in many private collections.
