About Matthew Wright

Matthew Wright was born in London 1945. He studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art, where he won first prize for drawing & painting and the David Murray Travelling Scholarship to France.

In 1966 he won a place at the Royal Academy Schools where he studied for 4 years graduating in 1969 when he won First Landseer Prize and Silver Medal for 3 drawings of the head.

In the early seventies Matthew launched his career by selling prints and drawings to outlets and galleries in Hampstead, Kensington, Chelsea and Camden Town. Then onto looser, freer forms in Oil, Watercolour and Pastel, depicting scenes of his riverside home in Surrey and of summers spent in a remote Pyrenean village in Southern France where he began selling pictures from his easel on the beach at Collioure and ended up converting a small barn and setting up his own Atelier.

Fired by the need to support himself and his family and by his own passion and dedication to his work Matthew has become the artist he is today. From still-life to landscapes he is able to express himself in a multiplicity of forms, techniques and subject matter, he continues to sell prints and greeting cards through many outlets in and around London, takes on private commissions and still spends much time painting in the South of France and showing his work from his home and Atelier in the old town of Ceret.