Personal Profile

MELISSA SADIE WRIGHT

1975 Born in Kent, UK / Lives and works in Sobrarbe, Spain.

KENT INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN, Canterbury, Kent, UK (Sep 1993 - Jul 1997):
BA (Hons) FINE ART – Specialised in Painting.
BTEC National Diploma in Art and Design.

PERSONAL STATEMENT:

“A journey, an intervention …Process of ceaseless renewal: light, movement, change, ebb & flow, growth & decay. (Relating them to the element of time – Seasonal changes/Temporality).
Exploration of place: patterns, textures and colour. Space in constant transformation. Ecological systems/cyclical awareness.

Unique 'rustic' paintings utilizing natural available resources from the environment (contorted root-systems/branches of trees etc) using a fusion of materials: Acrylic on canvas/ hessian/ fibrous paper-pulp, & often, incorporating intricate embroidery.

Each piece is deeply embedded with traces of where it was executed, both via the moulding of the canvas over the rocks etc, &, by the referential organic particles that physically enrich the pigmentation itself (in the form of sand particles from the riverbed, pollen etc).

My work is connected at every point to the phenomena of the natural world: Constant dialogues highlighting organic shapes & rhythms, colours of flowers, trees and rocks, light and atmosphere.The forms of my
pieces – spirals, circles etc are powerful expressions of the patterns and rhythms of growth”.

Works include: Paintings, Fine Art Photographic Giclées (Signed Limited Editions), Drawings, Silk-screen prints...

Always looking for sticks..

Below: Lissa At Work - Autumn (Ordesa National Park, España)
Ordesa National Park 2004

Below: Lissa Exploring in Italy Lissa Exploring in Italy 1997

Below: Lissa searching for a little inspiration...
Lissa snowboarding in Benasque,España

Below: Star-jumping Lissa in Portugal...

Home Sweet Home

Below: Lissa in Fuerteventura
'Unity'

Below: Lissa in front of 'Life-cycle Of A Chicken'

Below: Lissa isn't always covered in paint or twigs!
(just most of the time)

After paint-removal!

Below: Mountain Excursion (Folgaria, Italy)
Lissa in Folgaria, Italy 1997

Below: Refugio de Sensa (Sobrarbe, España)

Below: Anything for 'palo bueno'...

Below: The peak of Peña Montañesa, (Sobrarbe, España)

Below: Lissa as Shepherdess (Oncins, Sobrarbe, España) 2006
Pied piper of sheep!

Below: Lissa working on the 'Sensa' project (Sobrarbe, España) 2005
On top of the world...

Below: Lissa in Barrosa (Sobrarbe, España) 2006

Below: Lissa & Little Lucia (Sobrarbe, España) 2006

Below: Artists exhibiting in RENOVARTE 2005 (Photo on right) Lissa & Fish celebrating at Private View of Degree Show 1997

Below: Lissa chilling out with friends...

Me, Mum, and my 3 sisters!
Roast Dinner in Mipanas
La Fuerva Carnival 2006
Me as a sheep!
Owl's Birthday Dinner 2006

MELISSA SADIE WRIGHT

1975 Nace en Kent, Inglaterra / Vive y trabaja en los Pirineos, España.

FORMACIÓN:

KENT INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN, Canterbury, Kent, UK (Sep 1993 - Jul 1997):
BELLAS ARTES de BA (licenciada) – Especializada en pintura.
BTEC Diploma Nacional en Arte y Diseño.

RELACION DE TRABAJOS:

“Celebración de la belleza en la naturaleza, un viaje, un intervención...
Proceso continuo de renovación: luz, movimiento, cambio, flujo y reflujo, crecimiento y decadencia. (Relacionandolo al elemento de tiempo – cambios Estacionales/ Temporalidad). Los ciclos/sistemas ecológicos.Una conciencia / Exploración del medio ambiente: patrones, texturas y color.
Espacie en la transformación continua.

Pintures ‘rusticos’ unices utilizando recursos naturales disponibles en el medio ambiente.
Utilizando una fusión de materiales: Acrilico sobre lienzo/ arpillera/ técnica-mixta de retazos/ fibras recicladas de pulpa de papel, y a menudo, incorporando intrincados bordados.

Cada pieza este profundamente emplorada con rastros – de donde ha sido realizada, ambas, por via de la moldura de los lienzos sobre las rocas, etc, y por la referencia de particulas organicas que fisicamente enriquecen su propia pigmentación.
Mi trabajo está unido a cada punto del fenomeno del mundo natural: dialogos realzando formas y ritmas organicos, colores de flores, arboles y rocas, luz y atmosfere. Los formes de mis obras, espirales, circulos, etc, son expressiones fuertes de las patrones, dibujos y ritmos de crecimiento.”