“The reason I paint
is because I love paint.”
Lisa Wright
Lisa Wright
For the classically trained figurative artist Lisa Wright the medium of her choice
and her subject matter are connected through the inherent fleeting
unpredictability they share.
Whilst Wright’s practice is underpinned by drawing it is the
painting process that continues to draw her back into the studio.
As she said in the video Walking
Through Beautiful “I enjoy using it [paint], I enjoy the
unpredictability of it, I enjoy, sort of, trying to control it and see what it
does and finding new ways of applying it.”
Likewise her unsentimental depiction of childhood which
started with her using her own children as the subjects for her work. Not as
portraits but as the essence of that universal time in life we all share.
“It’s about trying to pin down that moment. It’s a very
fleeting thing. These times pass very very quickly and it’s about my connection
to childhood,” Wright says.
“I don’t think we give ourselves time to contemplate these
very simple things that allow ourselves to be in that moment, that sort of
space. It’s probably why I create these paintings in order for me to be, sort
of, sustain that feeling of being in that space. It is a bitter-sweet passing
of that moment, it’s inevitable, it has to pass. But it’s quite a bitter-sweet
thing and I think to have the contrast is what I want in the paintings.”
And Wright’s painting process enables this exploration.
“These paintings come about through that process of doing
and playing and seeing and what happens if, and I think it’s very rare for them
to end up how they started. I might have a clear sense from the outset of what
I want to do but very often that just kind of gets dissolved along the way and
then it becomes something else. It has to go on that journey in order for it to
come through in an authentic and convincing way for me.”
Wright’s current exhibition The Unversed is on show at London’s Gallery 8 until the
17th of October.
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