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About the artist
Born in 1947, Paul Wright studied at the Farnham School of Art in the
1960s, since when he has been a full-time and highly successful maritime
painter and illustrator.
Paul is considered the finest living
painter of 20th Century warships of the British, German and Japanese
Navies. His work is represented in the Permanent Collection Royal Navy
Museum, Portsmouth, and in private collections in the U.K., Stuttgart,
Helsinki, Sydney, Adelaide, Zimbabwe, Tokyo, Cape Town, New York, St.
Petersburg, Santa Fe, Fairfield Conn., San Francisco and Dallas.
Over the past decade he has gained a series of prestigious awards and commissions:
1n
1997 he was commissioned by the officers and men of H.M.S. Chatham
during their duty as headquarters ship for the hand over of Hong Kong to
China to paint a portrait of their ship and H.M.Y. Britannia during the
events of that week.
In 2000 his work for the Patrick O’Brian
novels was exhibited by the Jinishian Gallery of Connecticut at the New
York Yacht Club and the 5th Avenue Club.
More recently Paul has
completed two large murals for the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi and carried out
mural paintings for the new Cunard superliner Queen Mary II. He has
regularly exhibited at the Royal Society of Marine Artists in London.