Emma Knight

"Mintus Nettleus"

12" x 9"

oil painting on board

Imagined extraterrestrial flora.

Artist Bio:

Emma Knight studied art at the University of Mary Washington. Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia she spent 20 years in Savannah, Georgia before returning to her hometown. She has won several exhibition prizes in her 30 years of painting and has also been included in the prestigious State Department's Art in Embassies program and ArtFields in Lake City, SC.
There is no mistaking Knight's specific artistic style. Windswept, puffy, organic shapes fill the canvas and take the place of foliage, leaving the viewer with a sense of curiosity and wonder. Her paintings reveal an atmospheric sensibility. Line, shape and color work in concert to evoke the mood of a place and time rather than clear and detached details. In her newest works, her abstraction has gone a step further. No longer representing actual space, the organic structures still conjure sensations of life. They recall the petals of chrysanthemum or carnation. Or perhaps their squiggly shapes suggest creatures found in the waters of a lake. Knight embraces the natural world to her own sensuous end, her own Twisted Eden. (credit to Eric LaChance, Curator of The Sumter Counter Gallery of Art, Sumter County, SC)

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