Oil paintings for sale painted solely by Michael Wright. Commissions welcomed.
Global delivery.
You have the best art in Malta.' RS Malta.
'LeMakoo, thanks, I am so happy with the painting, the room glows, everyone
who looks at it is just amazed.' JF Malta.
'One word to describe it Mike.........STUNNING.' JA Malta.
'Very nice. I like the jackson pollock style splashings..but in much more delicate
way to compliment the beauty.' IR Manchester.
'love it! prosit hafna!.' MD Malta.
'Mike, your work is truly stunning.' KB Malta.
'Thanks again Mike. The original is definitely even more stunning than
the photo. Just love it! The careful packaging also paid off - it's in
perfect condition.' LW Germany.
About the artist.
'I love beauty and I love oil paints and the texture and shine they produce. I like to see the brush strokes so I know I'm looking at a work of art and not a photograph.
I produce mostly Oil paintings because nothing has yet been invented that has a chance to last as long. I like the feeling that my work will survive long after me.
Originally from Australia, Michael Wright lives now in Malta after a lifetime working with the largest media organisations in Sydney and London. Notably The Times of Londonand the Sydney Morning Herald.
His mission is simple, to capture beauty through art.
Michael began his journey as an artist on The Sydney Morning herald in 1986. He since moved to London where he worked on The Times and the Daily Mirror eventually becoming a political cartoonist for The European He has produced work for such names as Ferrari and Benetton.
Using only the finest, highest quality art materials available. Michael aspires to longevity in his paintings, to give them the chance of survival for hundreds of years.
Michael's work has been sold all over the world and sits in many private collections. His first solo show in the Isle Of Man was a sell out.
In Malta LeMakoo has exhibited his work at the Trade Fair, the Home Exhibition, the Phoenicia, the Palace and performed live oil painting demonstrations at Bay Street, Ideacasa and Touchstone Gallery.
Reviews
Michael Wright is an artist and writer with a passion for expression in many forms. He has written and used illustrations in the media to portray and inform all over the world.
Born and raised in Sydney, he was fortunate to get a position at Fairfax Newspapers at an early age that influenced the rest of his life. From there, following in the footsteps of countless Australians he landed at Heathrow airport in London to pursue his ambitions. Once again he was fortunate in gathering a wide range of experience on a number of London's leading newspapers over a period of many years. 'The most fun I had was with the Daily Mirror, the office was full of energy, talent and drive and I found myself in many interesting situations.'
10 April 1992: A large IRA bomb explodes outside 30 St Mary Axe in the City of London. Wright was tasked with describing and drawing the entire incident for the Sunday Telegraph. Searching through the bomb crater gathering evidence with his camera and notepad in a scene of devastation, he noticed a small delicate ship sculpture in a glass case that had survived the blast totally intact, barely ten metres from the epicentre. 'The glass case was covered in debris, the roof of the building above it was missing, yet somehow this most fragile of things had survived.'
1993-94: Drawing front page political cartoons for The European. Major stories at that time were the Bosnian war, the referendums and negotiations forming the European Union and Russia coping with the fall of communism. 'I enjoyed drawing Russians in their big fur coats and hats, they were easily caricatured and instantly recognisable. Drawing cartoons about the war in Bosnia was tricky. I had to tread a fine line introducing humour into a subject filled largely with tragedy. I found that attacking politicians was always easy and I was delighted to receive correspondence from the public.'
Review by John Readman
Michael Wright is a highly regarded artist of striking style and originality. His vivid Maltese paintings exhibit extraordinary intensity of colour that skilfully juxtaposes light and shadow to capture the changing conditions of the Mediterranean.
These extremes in contrast are reminiscent of the tension and release found in great Jazz compositions, creating atmosphere and passion in his work. His intricate and subtle techniques with opposite hues of the colour spectrum, give an eerie detail and realism within the shadows of the artist’s landscapes. The scenes evoke a dignity and integrity that capture the moods of the Maltese Islands.
Michael Wright has produced many memorable images of Malta. His paintings of Valletta are rich and powerful. Valletta Red, Valletta Blue and Sweeping Valletta are all good examples. Similarly his painting of Vittoriosa, Filfla, Golden Bay, Mdina and the Sentinels of Ghajn Tuffieha are fine works of art. I recommend you seek out and enjoy these impressive paintings.
The High Commissioner for Australia H.E. Ms Anne Quinane. Opening LeMakoo's exhibition.
Malta. An Australian Perspective Exhibition Review,
by Justin Fenech.
The exhibition of that opened yesterday at the Phoenicia, is the latest in the series of the Australian painter, Michael Wright, perhaps one of the most exciting talents in the Maltese art scene so far. This latest exhibition perfectly captures Michael’s two greatest abilities: Consistency and Dynamism.
His style has become as recognizable as that of Van Gogh, or Mondrian, it is something purely his own, and more than a little exciting. His swirling backgrounds, dense with proud, bright reds, warm yellows, putting in the shade the scenes they depict. It is as if Mdina is basking in the shade of the colours! A submission of reality to the artistic mind.
In this exhibition he has turned his attention to the detailed, almost anthropological comparison of his adopted home, and his native land. This is as revealing as any historical study could be on the nature of our Islands. The humorous, yet profound way, which he unites scenes of Maltese life with those of Australia is quite eye-opening. Who would have thought Valletta and the Sydney Opera house could look so well together? The exciting, almost melancholy, unite the two realities effortlessly, by sheer force of colour. Reality is nothing more than colour, and distance is a colourful illusion.
The themes of the exhibition vary from the mystical to the tongue-in-cheek. I never before saw such a modern, hypnotic image of our sole Maltese saint, Dun Gorg Preca, smiling at me as he always did in the pictures I constantly saw in youth, but somehow looking like a Warholean superstar. Perhaps the church could do with this kind of modernization?
Then, who amongst us Maltese, are not accustomed to seeing the erious, morose, faces of our past Grand Masters, hanging from their opulent palaces of hidden corruption? Yet, who amongst us, could have ever thought to have seen a Knight bearing a gun? Associating a Knight with the Australian rogue, Ned Kelly, is a metaphor worthy of Andre Breton! Sheer class.
The other myriad of scenes, including the images of fantastic women, two-dimensional rainbows, along with Art Nouveau-esque images of Poppies and Hibiscus, catalogue, and detail, Malta’s long lost pride, a pride which can only be appreciated by a foreigner. The colours scream a loud and proud National Anthem, that stretches as far as Uluru.
On a personal note, I feel confident enough, and relieved enough, to term this ‘Malta’s first Imaginationist exhibition’! The work in this exhibition perfectly encapsulates, not only superficially, but deeply, the beliefs of Imaginationism. Not only do the scenes themselves depict and elicit emotions that take the viewer back to the lonely Maltese balcony, or the bustling dusk in Sydney, but, more importantly, they make you feel. When one looks at these paintings one does not think, those bourgeois, superficial thoughts, like “what is the artist trying to portray?” or “what does this mean?” No! Finally there is artwork which you can simply enjoy, appreciate, and get carried away on the journey they take you on.
I never felt so relaxed looking at art. I wasn’t looking at a mathematical equation of technique and combinations. The technique that these paintings possess serves a purpose, to enhance the image, the scene, giving enough realism to satisfy travel-hungry minds. Long, long may it continue!
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