"An insightful and often funny depiction of Italian Life" Hannah McIntyre, The Italian Insider Magazine
In this, the follow up to his successful debut book, 'An Italian Home', artist Paul Wright describes Italian village life and his regular dialogue with a group of retired men who are mostly from the catering trade. Punctuated with work adventures beyond the village boundaries for all manner of clients, both reputable and not so reputable in the surrounding area and beyond, to the Italian Riviera. After selling some of his trademark watercolours to an American client, he finds himself working for one of them at his home in New England, and enjoying a break in New York City, where he discusses the art market. Enjoy Paul's innate humour as he pulls no punches in describing the behaviour, likes, dislikes and prejudices of the people he meets.
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Paul Wright is an author and artist. He has five books on release through Amazon with a new novel 'Beside Lake Como' almost complete:
'An Italian Home' Settling by Lake Como.
'An Italian Village' A Perspective On Life Beside Lake Como'
'Cats Do Eat Spaghetti' Living with our Rescue Cats.'
'An Italian Island' The Story of a Life Changing Italian Holiday.
'Dear Manager' Forever a Red.
After three years study at Southport Art College, Paul's first first job was painting beat-clubs in Liverpool during the Beatle-era. After the 'Mersey-Beat' era was over he became a scenic-artist and set designer at the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre. From the experience gained at the Playhouse he worked in London's West-End theatres. He was also worked for BBC TV as a set designer with the 'Dr. Who' team, as well as working in films and TV advertising. After theatre, TV and films, he started his own studio in Surrey where he specialised in hand painted interiors for palaces, villas, hotels, offices, clubs and the private homes of some of the world's wealthiest and famous celebrities, including, on occasion, royalty. In 1991, he moved his studio to northern Italy. Specifically to the shores of Lake Como from where he paints watercolour landscapes of Lake Como and its villages. Paul's art work has been featured in many art exhibitions and in two live interview programmes for Italian Television, plus dozens of periodicals and newspapers worldwide notably, The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times, Architectural Digest, and The Arts Review.
In his youth Paul was a semi-professional footballer on Merseyside. He later played for Cheltenham Town.
Paul's email address in Italy is: pwnja@gruppointercom.net