I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

- Peter Wright

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess th…

- Peter Wright

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sak…

- Peter Wright

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

- Peter Wright

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

- Peter Wright

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I st…

- Peter Wright

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or …

- Peter Wright

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered tha…

- Peter Wright

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spellin…

- Peter Wright