Images of the Isle of Wight, seen from an industrial, engineering and maritime perspective are presented by Island artist Jonathan Wright.
After training as a design engineer in Sheffield, Jonathan went to on to study fine art and anatomy at the Ruskin School of Drawing at Oxford University.
His work as an artist has taken him all over the world and he has taken commissions from film, advertising and aerospace industries as a freelance illustrator.
His work shows exquisite and infinitesimal attention to detail, each brush stroke or pencil line is carefully thought out to produce a highly observed and rendered imagery.
Each piece is the culmination of hundreds of hours of painstaking work.
Jonathan’s work is purely classically based; his techniques are familiar to 17th century painting; traditionally made oil paints are based on Vermeer’s palette with no concessions made to modern materials such as acrylic and PVA paints.
Each painting is made up of layer upon layer of glazed colour allowing the lighting of the under-painting and the detail of the drawing to hold throughout these processes to the final image.
Perspectives of an Island represents the commonplace, the ordinary and the taken-for-granted – often in decay, or rusty and worn-out – certainly forlorn, but still inspirational in their imagery and vitality.
His paintings are not only the observations of a professional technical draftsman from Sheffield, but of a fine artist with an eye for meticulous detail. They are portraits of the nature of the subjects without the sentimentality of many mainstream painters and the results are powerful challenging images combining the essence of both the animate and the inanimate.
Prints are available of any of the images exhibited, to any size, by request.
Bits and Bobs:
Rope Store Gallery, Quay Arts
Sat 30 May – Sat 11 July
Drinks Reception: Sat 30 May 6 – 8 pm
All Welcome
