Toby Wright

Toby Wright

Location: France

Higher education:

 Graduate of the Florence academy of art, Florence Italy:

1999-2004

 BA (Hons) degree in Illustration. University of art and design,

Swindon, England: 1995-1998

 Foundation Diploma, University of Westminster, London, England:

1994-1995


Teaching experience:

 Florence Academy of art, Florence, Italy: 2003-2010.

• Assistant teacher in the drawing program.

• Director of the sculpture drawing department.

• Principal instructor in the advanced painting program.

 Guest speaker as Art history lecturer.


Current position:

 Member of Explorer’s club NYC.

 Member of the Alpine club, UK.

 Member of “Académie des arts et sciences de la mer”, France.


Awards:


  • ARC international salon 2011, 3rd place figurative.

  • AIAP salon MONACO : Prix commission nationale 2010, Prix du

  • publique 2010, Prixdu publique 2012.

  • “Magazine Pratique des arts”, 5th place, annual competition 2018.

  • ARC finalist 2019.

  • ARC finalist 2021.


Public collections/ commissions:


  • Ministry of State, MONACO, 2013.

  • Image or Russia, Ministry of Culture, Moscow, Russia. 2014.

  • Pink Ribbon/CHPG MONACO, 2014.

  • Institut Océanographique de MONACO, 2018.

  • Pink Ribbon awards, MONACO, 2019.

  • Waldorf Astoria, 301 park avenue, NYC, USA, 2024.


  • Princess Grace Foundation, MONACO/U.S, 2019.

Exhibition venues:


• Gladwell & Patterson, London, U.K.


• Ann long fine arts, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.


• Eleanor Ettinger gallery, New York, U.S.


• Forbes gallery, New York, U.S.


• Gallerie Michael, Rodeo drive, Los Angeles, U.S.


• Grenning gallery, Sag Harbor NY, U.S.


• Musée Oceanographique, Monaco.


• Richard J. Massey foundation for arts and science, New York,U.S.


• Solomon gallery, Dublin, Ireland.


• Immortal works, Goteborg, Sweden.


• Publication « lessons in classical drawing », 2012 Watson-Gutpill, NYC.


• Art en Capitale 2013, Grand palais, Paris, France.


• Image of Russia, Image or Russia, Ministry of Culture, Moscow.





Painting Expeditions:



• Arctic: Svalbard 83°N, Greenland Scoresbysund, Iceland.


• Antarctic: Antarctic peninsula: Drake passage, Dundee island to


Beascochea bay.


• Mongolia: Gobi desert


• Alps: Massif du Mt Blanc. Dent du géant 4013m, Arête de


Laurence 3500m, Mer de Glace 2000m.


• Himalaya, Gangotri 3100m, Uttarakhand, India.





Lectures.



Painting on top of the world: Arctic expedition painting Art and Conservation. Diorama painters of the AMNH. Mountaineering painters witnessing climate.

Venues:


• Explorers club Monday lecture series.


• Florence academy in Italy, Sweden, United States.


• On board Aurora expedition vessel in Antarctica.


• Ca’Foscari university Venice, Italy.


• Utah university, Salt lake city, USA.


• Various locations on invitation: galleries, art studios, online conferences.




Portfolio:

Portrait & Figure

A selection of my figurative paintings, oil on canvas, all done from life, NO photography

landscape

outdoor paintings, from life, NO photography

still life

oil on canvas, done from life, NO photography

A dry year “A dry year”

oil on canvas, 70 x 50cm

Grape squeeze “Grape squeeze”

Oil on panel, 30x40cm

after the ball “after the ball”

oil on canvas, 60 x 50cm

still life

oil on canvas, done from life, NO photography