Toby Wright
Toby Wright was born in Monaco in 1976. He began his art studies in England, with 4 years studying Illustration, earning a BA(hons)
degree in 1998. Dissatisfied with much of the instruction he received, he enrolled at the “Florence Academy of Art” in 1999, where
he finally found a realistic painting program that believed in traditional artistic values. He was invited to assist teaching while
still continuing his studies, and since has become a principle instructor in the painting program, was director of the drawing program
for the sculpture department, and is now a pricipal instructor in the advanced painting program.
With a return to traditional values, Toby studies closely the old Masters such as Bonnat, Velasquez, Rembrandt, Sargent and many others.
Through a classical palette, he paints in oils on canvas and board, and works from Nature whether in “plein air” for his landscapes, or with
models for his portraits. It is only in this way that he can hope to capture the presence of a person, or the depth of a landscape.
“One must find the fine balance of Nature to capture life. Very often it is the extremes that are acclaimed, and the fine balance
seen as insipid and bland. But it is in that fine balance that we find the harmony of Nature, and it is through the humble observation
of it that we can discover its truth, and subsequently its beauty.”
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Realists
