Toby Wright
France
Toby WRIGHT is a portrait, landscape and expedition painter. Born in Monaco, he pursued his higher education in England, graduating with a BA (Hons) in Illustration, and later in Italy graduating from the “Florence Academy of Art”. During his studies, he was invited to teach in the same school for several years as a principal instructor in the advanced painting program.
As an oil painter he searches for a depth and richness of expression through a universal language: Realist classical painting. Through this style, he follows a humanist tradition born out of Antiquity and the Renaissance.
Toby WRIGHT strives to work directly from life to capture the full depth of his subject, whether outdoors for his landscapes or with a model in his studio for his portraits. He seeks to create an intimate dialogue between the subject, the viewer and the artist.
He recently completed a historic painting commissioned by the oceanographic museum of Monaco. It represents the full-length portraits of the 12 members of the counsel of administrators around H.R.H Prince Albert II of Monaco. This 3 meter wide painting is currently on view at the museum, in the “Salon d’Honneur” and is the first painting of this subject since 1909.
Toby WRIGHT is also involved in awareness campaigns around environmental issues. Participating on missions as an expedition painter with international organizations, as well as pursuing his own personal initiatives. He has taken his easel to the Arctic (Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland), among the Alps up to 4000m, and more recently in the Himalayas. He has also experimented with under-water drawing, to study marine life.
He has worked with various galleries across Europe and America, and his works can be found in private and public collections.
Member of the explorer’s club (New York), and the “Académie des arts & sciences de la mer” (France).
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