Nai Wright

BA (Hons) Illustration
Naomi Dawn Alma Wright
Naomi Dawn Alma Wright
Naomi Dawn Alma Wright
Naomi Dawn Alma Wright
Naomi Dawn Alma Wright
Naomi Dawn Alma Wright
Naomi Dawn Alma Wright
Naomi Dawn Alma Wright
Naomi Dawn Alma Wright
Naomi Dawn Alma Wright

These are my own tales, drawing inspiration from my immediate surroundings: family life, conversations with neighbours, local streets. The most recent illustrations show what it`s been like living in isolation during the pandemic. In some of my earlier images I have used well-known fairy tales to fictionalise family relationship.

I have aimed to highlight the good in family life and Cynon Valley community through images that attend to details using intricate line work. I believe careful observational drawings can bring out humour, love, truth and sense of community in ways which people can relate to. I often see myself as a reporter for the people, using their words and images to share humbling and truthful tales that can be enjoyed by anyone who reads.

Fy straeon i yw’r rhain, wedi’u hysbrydoli gan yr hyn sydd o’m hamgylch: bywyd teuluol, sgyrsiau â chymdogion, strydoedd lleol. Mae’r lluniau diweddaraf yn dangos sut beth oedd ynysu yn ystod y pandemig. Yn rhai o’m lluniau cynharach, rydw i wedi defnyddio straeon tylwyth teg adnabyddus i ffuglennu perthynas deuluol.

Rydw i wedi ceisio amlygu’r pethau da mewn bywyd teuluol ac yng nghymuned Cwm Cynon drwy luniau sy’n rhoi sylw i fanylder gan ddefnyddio gwaith llinell cymhleth. Rwy’n credu bod lluniau arsylwgar gofalus yn gallu dangos hiwmor, cariad ac ymdeimlad o gymuned mewn ffyrdd y gall pobl uniaethu â nhw. Rwy’n aml yn gweld fy hun fel gohebydd y bobl, yn defnyddio eu geiriau a’u lluniau i rannu straeon dihymongar a didwyll y gall unrhyw un eu mwynhau.

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