Art by Diane Knight

This little angel keeps coming back to me, so I had to paint her close up.  I like the way she stands out with the dark background.

Silent Amiga

I have been busy preparing some work for the upcoming ARTS “Small Works” Show, as well as organizing the show itself.  These three paintings are the result.  Although they are small, they took almost as much time as a larger painting – I find small brushes hard to work with.

The Shrine

 

La Puerta Roja

Five Pelicans

This painting, of two flamenco dancers preparing for a performance, is the result of a workshop with Nicholas Pearce.  It represents a very large stretch for me in a  number of ways.  The canvass is large – 30 x 40, and the painting is done with a large “trim painting” brush.  The palette is also confined to 4 colours (plus white), and mixing is done on the canvas, not on a palette.

Despite these real challenges, I like the final results!  Interestingly, painting the shawl, which is one of the more subtle and complex parts of the image, took the least time of any area!

I hope you like this new direction.

Flamenco Dancers

I’ve just finished this piece that had some technical challenges for me in capturing the feel of water, and the rippled reflections.  It’s of our local harbour here in Comox, BC.

Comox Harbour

Mango Stand

Welcome to my new website.  Well I have been busy discovering new ways to express myself in my paintings; my husband has given my website a fresh new look.  I hope you enjoy it.

I was fortunate to be able to attend a workshop with Mike Svob last summer.  Mike’s paintings are full of surprising colour.  Being a colour junkie myself, I was looking for inspiration and different ways to use glazes.  What I came away with was a style Mike called “Black Elvis Textured Painting” where you cover the canvas with textured black gesso and paint large shapes with pure acrylic paint leaving a black outline.  It was very different than anything I had done before and I loved it.  I have attached a painting titled “Mango Stand”  using this method.

I also attended a demo at Painters at Painters Lodge in Campbell River given by Grant Leier and Nixie Baron.  They both use collage and different tools to make patterns and shapes.  Nixie does this with encaustic.  Very playful stuff.  I’ve decided I’m going to spend my summer playing so it will be fun to work with other tools besides paint, brushes and palette knives.

I have taken on the position of Chairperson of Artists of Todos Santos for the 2010/2011 season and passed on the organization and running of our Annual Artist Studio Tour.  Visit www.artistsoftodossantos.com to see how our group has impacted visual arts in Todos Santos, our small Pueblo Magico in the Baja.  With this big responsibility with ARTS, I think ‘playing’ with my art will offer a nice balance.  It will be fun to see what directions that takes me.

I was the featured artist in the March 2008 edition of El Calendario, the Todos Santos magazine, available for viewing on-line here.