Alan Knight profile

Name:	Alan Knight
Year of Birth:	1949
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Oil on board (11)
Oil On Canvas (10)

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Artist Alan Knight was born in Swinton, Lancashire in 1949. After a career as a professional musician Alan Knight returned to his first love, painting, in the early 80’s and has since been gaining a growing reputation for his expressive use of oil paint. Having painted in an abstract manner for several years Alan gradually felt the need for his art to be “rooted in the real” and moved to a representational form of expression, focusing on land and seascapes.

Alan has a love for oil paint, finding immense pleasure in the substance, its richness and plasticity, and likes to apply it thickly with a painting knife, enjoying the texture and richness of colour that this method produces. Valuing spontaneity and freedom of movement, he paints using knives rather than brushes to enable a quick clean response. Alan is passionate about the painting process and always needs to be excited by a subject before beginning painting in order to convey to the viewer the sense of pleasure that he has felt in making the painting.

Artists’ who have responded to nature with passionate intensity such as Cezanne, Soutine, Van Gogh, Courbet, Canadian artist Tom Thomson and Scottish painter Joan Eardley are closest to his heart.

Examples of work