ARTIST STATEMENT:
Lee Wright is a fearless printmaker and painter based in the Brecon Beacons in South Wales.
After a long career in IT in London he made a change to study printmaking at Putney School of Art,
His Lino prints are aimed in capturing the beauty and tranquility of the landscape too. He works out of a studio in Cwmdu in a converted Victorian school alongside other gifted artists.
“Every moment of every day the light and the effect it has on the scenery changes. I try to capture some of these moments in my Lino prints.”
He moved to South Wales in 2009 where he was inspired by his new surroundings to paint the landscape.
He trained in oil painting at The Welsh Academy of Art. In his artwork, Lee paints using techniques handed down from the masters such as Rembrandt, whilst his Lino prints have an essence of the delicate and beautiful Japanese woodblock prints of the past with a nod of the ever-popular Vintage Railway Prints.
He works and teaches in his studios near Crickhowell in a converted Victorian School.