| Priest-painter – Robert Wright is an Anglican priest who seeks to explore spirituality through the medium of abstract paintings Robert Wright is self taught and cites Wassily Kandinsky, Ben Nicholson, Mark Rothko, Sean Scully and Terry Frost as major influences on his painting. He is especially concerned with the balance of his paintings and he hopes that this reflects his simultaneous exploration of contemplative prayer  where he is heavily influenced by the writings of the Twentieth Century monk Thomas Merton. Working mostly in acrylics, in his paintings Robert explores ambiguities and just when something is clear, other deeply evocative spaces and perspectives open up. Robert has led a number of days and seminars on art and spirituality and his work has been shown at several religious communities. Robert Wright has held five successful solo exhibitions at Westminster Abbey, If you want to know God, learn to know yourself first 2002, The Enterprise: where elephants swim and lambs paddle 2004, The Advancing Edge 2007, An Exhibition of Paintings 2007, The other Side of Silence 2009 and a shared exhibition in Hereford – From darkness to light- as part of hArt 07. His paintings are held in private collections throughout the UK, France and America. |