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Cotswolds based artist Melanie Wright is known for her portrayal of
equine and landscape subjects and her talent for capturing
atmosphere, action, speed and quality of light. Along with a keen
eye for true representation, she brings a highly individual vision
to her paintings and drawings.
Her work is inspired both by her Cotswold surroundings and her love
of landscape and equestrian events, and her paintings move from the
gentle beauty of the Cotswold Hills to the thrill, action and
atmosphere of polo and racing events.
Working in oils, pastels and watercolour, Melanie also paints
portraits to commission. She shows her paintings and drawings at
galleries throughout the United Kingdom and examples of her work can
also be found in private collections in Europe, Japan and the United
States.
Melanie
studied portraiture and life painting to postgraduate level at
Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London, and History of Art, with
an emphasis on Modern British Painting, at Christie's Education.
She grew up in the North Yorkshire Dales where she spent much of her
childhood riding, handling and studying horses and observing and
absorbing the landscape. She rode out with both the Zetland and
Bedale hunts and often visited the gallops on the moors at Middleham.
Melanie continues a long family tradition of painting, beginning
with her great grandfather James Faed RA and his two brothers Thomas
Faed RA and John Faed RA. Both Melanie's grandmothers were
practicing artists.
Exhibited:
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Contemporary, Grafton St, Mayfair, London
The Munnings Museum, Castle House, Dedham, Essex
The British Racing School, Newmarket
The
Titian Gallery at Blenheim Palace Fine Art and Antiques Fair (CADA),
Oxfordshire
Frank
T.Sabin, The Royal Arcade, Bond St, London
The Osborne Studio Gallery, Belgravia, London SW1
The Mall Galleries (Society of Equestrian Artists), Pall Mall,
London
The Chelsea Arts Club, Old Church St, London
The RAC Club, Pall Mall, London
The Medici Gallery, Grafton St, London
The Fosse Gallery, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire
The Kingham Plough, Kingham, Oxfordshire
The Mill on the Fleet Gallery, Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway,
Scotland
Liquid Amber Gallery, The Feversham Arms Hotel, Helmsley, North Yorkshire
The Christie-Wilde Foundation, Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida, USA
The Tithe Barn, Bourton House, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire
Art Galleries Europe (Equestrian art exhibition in aid of Emile
Faurie Foundation), Maddox Street, Mayfair, London
Artist in Residence
Charlie
Longsdon Racing, Oxfordshire - 2014/ 2015
Newmarket: presented by The British Racing School - 2018/2019
Photograph by Leslie Smithers.
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