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Peter Wright Biography

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Peter Wright was a renowned British author known for his suspense novels. His works are characterized by complex plots and in-depth psychological descriptions, which have won him a wide audience.

Change Goes On Things Change There Comes A Time

Author:Peter Wright

“When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.”

People Looks Work Interesting Pieces Most Interesting

Author:Peter Wright

“I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.”

Mind School Painting Dirty Dirty Minds Pallets

Author:Peter Wright

“I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.”

Life Years Use Three Felt Alive Effects Colour Three Years Kidneys Gifts Of Life Reprieve Dialysis

Author:Peter Wright

“I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.”

People Way Life Needs Made Stills Felt Interesting Class Subjects Painting Drawing Best Way Get Back Very Interesting

Author:Peter Wright

“I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.”

Kind Jobs Pay Mines All Kinds Tin

Author:Peter Wright

“I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.”

People Might Happens Used Particular Clothes Paint Studios Landscape Beach Pubs

Author:Peter Wright

“I tried to learn the violin for a while.”

Violin

Author:Peter Wright

“Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.”

Art Objects Painting

Author:Peter Wright

“I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.”

Way Trying Persons Limits Method Experiments Breathing Single Picture

Author:Peter Wright

“I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?”

Ifs Knows Looks Subjects Fronts Painting Mark Outcomes Colour Improvisation Flooding

Author:Peter Wright

“I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.”

People Thinking Cases Study Meditation Subjects Sake Drawing Observation Subservient

Author:Peter Wright

“As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.”

Ideas Kids Artist Romantic Difficulty Math Judgement Establishment Being An Artist Spelling Bohemian Bohemia

Author:Peter Wright

About the Author

Born: August 9, 1916
Died: April 27, 1995
Known for: Author
Quotes: 13

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