Kathy McKnight is a Canadian artist who now lives in Sebastopol, Ca. It was her
lifelong immersion in landscape photography that led Kathy to painting. Through
painting, she found a visual language that was slower and deeper and allowed her
to communicate a connection with nature that she had first experienced with her
photography.
Kathy’s principal style is abstract impressionism using oil often mixed with cold
wax medium for the unique effects it can create. She develops her paintings wit
multiple layers utilizing the translucency of the oil & wax mixture. This style of
painting brings complexity and depth to the work with visual and physical textures
that mimic the forms and light she sees in the natural world.
“My paintings contain stories of my moments in Mother Nature. Each layer builds
the story with visual language until the painting is complete, the story told.”
Kathy McKnight