Kevin Wright
Kevin Wright feels that one aspect of his work is to capture a ‘sense of place’. He sees that places can resonate with their history and own special feeling. This approach to creating images is evident in his series of prints of London, Venice and South Devon. He works mainly in the print medium of etching and aquatint. His work has been exhibited widely and has been included in exhibitions at the Royal Academy, the London Barbican, National Trust properties and internationally.
Old Palazzo, Venice
Etching
13 x 20 cm
Under the Stars
Etching
15 x 20 cm
Tower Jetty, after the Cloudburst
Etching
15 x 20 cm
Wave Breaking - Offshore Wind
Etching
20 x 15 cm
St. Paul's and the Millennium Bridge at twilight.
Etching with Aquatint.
125x345mm
St. Paul’s from Gabriel’s Wharf.
Etching.
148x197mm
The Street of Sacred Objects, Naples. Etching.
345x125mm
Dartmoor: Haytor and the Lowman under snow.
Etching with Aquatint.
200x303mm
£125cm Unframed
Dartmoor: Middle Staple Tor under rainclouds.
Etching with Aquatint.
149x199mm
£85 Unframed
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Dartmoor, Great Staple Tor after the rain
Etching
13 x24cm
£85 Unframed
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Dartmoor Church, Brentor
Etching
40x30 cm
£185 Unframed
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Zattere Mooring, Venice
Etching
20x15 cm
£95 Unframed
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Dartmoor snow, Brentor
Etching
30x40 cm
£145 Unframed
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Santa Maria della Salute
Etching
20x15cm
£135 Unframed
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Millennium Footbridge, the Thames at Sunset
Etching
15x20 cm
£85 Unframed
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Kevin Wright creates limited-edition fine-art etchings. He uses traditional methods, working his imagery into copper plates by biting them with solutions of acid.
Kevin prints the copper plates onto heavyweight cotton paper on his etching press, creating editions of eachHis imagery encompasses his love of cities such as London and Venice and the countryside and coast of the West Counttry. Essentially, he is a representational artist, inasmuch as the viewer can recognise the subject of the image. Romanticism guides his work, both in terms of his fascination with the sudden strangeness of Nature and his interest in capturing timeless moments in cities.