Featured image: Piled, Autumn Wright, 2023, watercolor monotype, 16 x 14 in. / 40.64 x 35.56 cm.
Autumn Wright’s work approaches the natural world with both scientific precision and poetic curiosity.
Autumn Wright creates intimate, detail-driven works exploring geology, water, and organic forms through mixed media, photography, and printmaking.
Across mixed-media pieces and watercolor monotypes, Wright isolates fragments of geology, water, and fungal life, reframing them as intimate meditations on time, texture, and organic transformation. These three artworks highlight the artist’s ongoing interest in micro-landscapes, those quiet, overlooked terrains that reveal the earth’s slow, deliberate movements.
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Nevada Boulder Rocks, Autumn Wright, 2021, mixed media, 20 x 20 in. / 50.8 x 50.8 cm.
In Nevada Boulder Rocks, Wright focuses on the monumental presence of desert stone. The circular frame evokes both a microscope lens and a planetary view, collapsing scale into a single visual field. Subtle greens, purples, and earth tones create the impression of layered sediments, reading like a cross-section of geologic memory. The work invites viewers to slow down and consider the quiet narratives embedded within rock formations, stories written across thousands of years and revealed only through careful attention.
From The Water, Autumn Wright, 2023, watercolor monotype, 10 x 8 in. / 25.4 x 20.32 cm.
From The Water shifts from stone to motion. Here, Wright constructs a floating, dream-like composition using watercolor monotype techniques. Abstract shapes in vivid yellow and green hover above a darkened, rippling background, suggesting objects rising, dissolving, or drifting downstream. The contrast between hard-edged cut forms and soft washes of pigment evokes the unpredictable movement of water, its ability to fragment, distort, and recombine the world around it. The result is an image that feels simultaneously natural and invented, a moment suspended between observation and imagination.
Fungi, Fall, Autumn Wright, 2021, mixed media, 20 x 20 in. / 50.8 x 50.8 cm.
In Fungi, Fall, Wright zooms in further, presenting fungal textures with uncanny magnification. The circular composition mirrors the first work, but the subject here is looser, more organic, clusters of pale, layered fungi spreading across bark with delicate irregularity. Embedded dots and subtle color gradients suggest both decay and regeneration, highlighting fungi as agents of transformation. The image feels archival, almost specimen-like, yet it pulses with life, reminding viewers that even decomposition is a form of creation.
Together, these works reveal Autumn Wright’s fascination with nature’s quiet architectures, those systems of stone, water, and organic growth that often escape casual notice. Whether examining desert cliffs or microscopic spores, Wright encourages viewers to read the environment as a living manuscript. Each artwork becomes a portal into the earth’s ongoing processes, connecting the monumental and the minute through a shared language of pattern, texture, and slow, patient change.
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Black Mountain, Autumn Wright, 2023, watercolor monotype, 30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 55.88 cm.
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