Simon Wright was born in Yorkshire in 1974. Fueled with the passion for creating art his entire life, Wright started his artistic career with a degree in illustration. Enjoying working as a professional illustrator, Simon relished being able to earn a living from his talent. Not quite content with the precisely controlled style of painting this work demanded, he began to develop a much looser spontaneous style. In the same way, the 20th-century impressionists allowed colour to form the structure of their art Simon began to revisit famous urban landscapes in an entirely new way. Utilising just a few tones Simon would create the impressionistic scene before ‘dribbling’ on the thick structure of the painting. From this point he describes a battle between the layered shadows and the raised structural lines for dominance.
