Mark Wright is a painter, curator, and photographer who focuses on nature and landscapes. He experiments with the different effects of painting compared with photography. His pieces are lively expressive renditions of our natural world and often focus on its wellbeing exploring motifs of infertile land, and the humanizing of our surroundings and the earth.
His panting has so much movement texture and life to them whilst conveying a sense of calm and serenity. They take glimpses of our surroundings without putting them on an unrealistic pedestal. Wright works with an appreciation for the muse “-replicating fine details” giving his pieces life and presenting the beauty and complexity of the natural world.
Wright also explores the impact photography has on today’s artistic society which is something I have always thought about as I personally confess to, what might be a prejudice, against electronic electronics. My instinct says they limit and remove us from following our natural instincts. But I balance that with the knowledge that people said the plough would not catch on - my logical mind tells me that electronics will open a new door to explore so many new things in art through technologies which otherwise would have not been possible.