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 of the physical stuff of oil paint and likes to apply it thickly with a painting knife, enjoying the texture and richness of colour that this method produces.

 

He 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 and pleasure that he has felt in making the painting.

 

In his studio at Vernon Mill, Stockport, are paintings of all sizes rich in texture and vibrant with colour, each one evidence of something sought for and discovered.

 

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