“I feel I need to include the elements from all my senses, not just from vision. What I’m looking for is to bring more to the table in terms of creating a painting that conveys a sense of being in a place.”
FAA Graduate and Workshop Instructor Toby Wright has recently released a series of videos showcasing his travels and landscape painting in the high French Alps. This video follows the first day of Wright’s acclimatization test in preparation for higher climbs in the days following. Climbing and hiking up the longest glacier in France, Wright finds a place to paint to test his equipment and endurance.
FAA Graduate and Workshop Instructor Toby Wright has recently released a series of videos showcasing his travels and landscape painting in the high French Alps. This video follows the first day of Wright’s acclimatization test in preparation for higher climbs in the days following. Climbing and hiking up the longest glacier in France, Wright finds a place to paint to test his equipment and endurance.
Toby Wright’s painting set up at the glacier Mer de Glace
Following in the footsteps of artists such as E.H. Compton (1881-1960) and J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) and J.S. Sargent (1856-1925) we are able to see the incredible changes to the landscape of the alps over the past 100 years through Wright’s paintings.
Parts II and III of Toby’s painting expedition through the Alps are available for subscribers of our Art Watcher tier!
Parts II and III of Toby’s painting expedition through the Alps are available for subscribers of our Art Watcher tier!
More about Toby:
Graduate of The Florence Academy of Art, Toby Wright was invited to assist teaching while continuing his studies. His positions included director of the drawing program for the sculpture department, and principal instructor in the advanced painting program. Inspired by various masters of painting and sculpture from the 17th and 19th century, Toby Wright believes in the method of working from life to capture the full depth of his subjects.
In parallel to a career in portrait painting, he has also applied his classical training to his love of nature and wildlife. To observe his subject directly from life, he has pursued his subject to various locations across the globe: The Arctic, South Africa, Mexico. Swimming with Orca and Whales in the Arctic, or the Sea Lions of the sea of Cortez, he has even pushed his boundaries and adapted to draw underwater.
His work can be found in public and private collections in Europe and America. He currently paints in his studio, in Monaco.
