Catherine Knight
Catherine Knight is a painter based at BV Studio, Bristol and a RWA Artist Network member. Since graduating from an MA in Fine Art at Bath Spa University in 2008 with a distinction, she has exhibited widely in both private and public gallery spaces including Wolverhampton Art Gallery and the New Art Gallery, Walsall. She was an invited artist at the Discerning Eye exhibition in 2014 and has exhibited four times at the Royal Watercolour Society Open, winning the Insight Art Prize in 2022.
Her work is distinctive for its vibrant use of colour and evocative landscapes based on Iceland, Finland and Norway. In 2018 Catherine was one of five artists who took part in the Bristol/ Hannover Artist Exchange, which linked up artists in the two cities and resulted in group exhibitions in both. During lockdown she made a series of gouache paintings based on people’s Isolation Windows crowd-sourced from all over the world. These were exhibited in a solo show at Exeter Phoenix in 2021.
She recently made a pilgrimage to the summer house of Edvard Munch in Åsgårdstrand, Norway, and the resulting body of work was exhibited in solo shows at Petersfield Museum and Art gallery and Irving Gallery, Oxford.“My recent work has been concerned with nocturnal light and interior spaces. Due to the lockdown conditions in recent memory and the fact of having young children, the domestic space has become more prevalent in my work. The way that a window frames and contains the world strongly appeals to me- a structure to contain the vastness of the sky. I think of the window as a ready-made painterly device, neatly framing and containing the world outside.”
“The window registers connection and difference between interior and exterior. It allows us two scenes at once. It affirms the presence of other ways of being, other patterns of objects, just beyond the concentrated space of the observer.” Gillian Beer, Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through.
2022
Oil on linen
40 x 30 cm; framed 44.4 x 33.7 x 3.8 cm
Framed in a dark grey-black wooden tray frame
2022
Oil on Arches huile paper
Framed 28.5 x 23.5 x 3.2 cm
Float mounted in a lime waxed box frame with UV glass
2022
Oil on Arches huile paper
Framed 28.5 x 23.5 x 3.2 cm
Float mounted in a lime waxed box frame with UV glass
2022
Oil on Arches huile paper
Framed 28.5 x 23.5 x 3.2 cm
Float mounted in a lime waxed box frame with UV glass
2022
Oil on linen
160 x 120 cm
Bristol-based artist Catherine Knight’s solo show ‘Long Shadows’ is a collection of work inspired by her visit in February 2022 to Oslo and to Åsgårdstrand, a small town on the Oslo Fjord, which was a source of inspiration for the artist Edvard Munch, and where he painted many of his famous works in the 1890s and early 1900s, including Melancholy, Girls on a Bridge, and The Voice. This body of work is Catherine’s distillation of her experience visiting the small house which served as a fixed point of continuity throughout Munch’s life, of being there in that crisp and sunny February, paying homage to Munch and his Lykkehuset, his ‘Happy House’.
2022
Oil on linen
160 x 120 cm
Bristol-based artist Catherine Knight’s solo show ‘Long Shadows’ is a collection of work inspired by her visit in February 2022 to Oslo and to Åsgårdstrand, a small town on the Oslo Fjord, which was a source of inspiration for the artist Edvard Munch, and where he painted many of his famous works in the 1890s and early 1900s, including Melancholy, Girls on a Bridge, and The Voice. This body of work is Catherine’s distillation of her experience visiting the small house which served as a fixed point of continuity throughout Munch’s life, of being there in that crisp and sunny February, paying homage to Munch and his Lykkehuset, his ‘Happy House’.
2022
Oil on board
40 x 30 cm
Bristol-based artist Catherine Knight’s solo show ‘Long Shadows’ is a collection of work inspired by her visit in February 2022 to Oslo and to Åsgårdstrand, a small town on the Oslo Fjord, which was a source of inspiration for the artist Edvard Munch, and where he painted many of his famous works in the 1890s and early 1900s, including Melancholy, Girls on a Bridge, and The Voice. This body of work is Catherine’s distillation of her experience visiting the small house which served as a fixed point of continuity throughout Munch’s life, of being there in that crisp and sunny February, paying homage to Munch and his Lykkehuset, his ‘Happy House’.
2022
Oil on linen
70 x 42 cm
Bristol-based artist Catherine Knight’s solo show ‘Long Shadows’ is a collection of work inspired by her visit in February 2022 to Oslo and to Åsgårdstrand, a small town on the Oslo Fjord, which was a source of inspiration for the artist Edvard Munch, and where he painted many of his famous works in the 1890s and early 1900s, including Melancholy, Girls on a Bridge, and The Voice. This body of work is Catherine’s distillation of her experience visiting the small house which served as a fixed point of continuity throughout Munch’s life, of being there in that crisp and sunny February, paying homage to Munch and his Lykkehuset, his ‘Happy House’.
2022
Oil on board
30 x 24 cm
Bristol-based artist Catherine Knight’s solo show ‘Long Shadows’ is a collection of work inspired by her visit in February 2022 to Oslo and to Åsgårdstrand, a small town on the Oslo Fjord, which was a source of inspiration for the artist Edvard Munch, and where he painted many of his famous works in the 1890s and early 1900s, including Melancholy, Girls on a Bridge, and The Voice. This body of work is Catherine’s distillation of her experience visiting the small house which served as a fixed point of continuity throughout Munch’s life, of being there in that crisp and sunny February, paying homage to Munch and his Lykkehuset, his ‘Happy House’.
2022
Oil on board
30.5 x 23 cm
(23) in the Long Shadows collection.
Catherine Knight’s solo show ‘Long Shadows’ is a collection of work inspired by the artist’s visit in February 2022 to Oslo and Åsgårdstrand, a small town on the Oslo Fjord, which was a source of inspiration for the artist Edvard Munch, and where he painted many of his famous works in the 1890s and early 1900s, including Melancholy, Girls on a Bridge, and The Voice. Some of Catherine’s ‘Long Shadows’ paintings are being exhibited at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery (7th March to 3rd June), and a different curation of the same project will be shown at Irving Contemporary’s Oxford gallery in the summer (10th June to 15th July). All works from both exhibitions are available to purchase exclusively through Irving Contemporary.
2022
Oil on board
30.5 x 23 cm
(20) in the Long Shadows collection.
Catherine Knight’s solo show ‘Long Shadows’ is a collection of work inspired by the artist’s visit in February 2022 to Oslo and Åsgårdstrand, a small town on the Oslo Fjord, which was a source of inspiration for the artist Edvard Munch, and where he painted many of his famous works in the 1890s and early 1900s, including Melancholy, Girls on a Bridge, and The Voice. Some of Catherine’s ‘Long Shadows’ paintings are being exhibited at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery (7th March to 3rd June), and a different curation of the same project will be shown at Irving Contemporary’s Oxford gallery in the summer (10th June to 15th July). All works from both exhibitions are available to purchase exclusively through Irving Contemporary.
2022
Oil on board
30 x 24 cm
(19) in the Long Shadows collection.
Catherine Knight’s solo show ‘Long Shadows’ is a collection of work inspired by the artist’s visit in February 2022 to Oslo and Åsgårdstrand, a small town on the Oslo Fjord, which was a source of inspiration for the artist Edvard Munch, and where he painted many of his famous works in the 1890s and early 1900s, including Melancholy, Girls on a Bridge, and The Voice. Some of Catherine’s ‘Long Shadows’ paintings are being exhibited at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery (7th March to 3rd June), and a different curation of the same project will be shown at Irving Contemporary’s Oxford gallery in the summer (10th June to 15th July). All works from both exhibitions are available to purchase exclusively through Irving Contemporary.
2022
Oil on linen
80 x 100 cm
Bristol-based artist Catherine Knight’s solo show ‘Long Shadows’ is a collection of work inspired by her visit in February 2022 to Oslo and to Åsgårdstrand, a small town on the Oslo Fjord, which was a source of inspiration for the artist Edvard Munch, and where he painted many of his famous works in the 1890s and early 1900s, including Melancholy, Girls on a Bridge, and The Voice. This body of work is Catherine’s distillation of her experience visiting the small house which served as a fixed point of continuity throughout Munch’s life, of being there in that crisp and sunny February, paying homage to Munch and his Lykkehuset, his ‘Happy House’.
2022
Oil on linen
100 x 80 cm
(24) in the Long Shadows collection.
Catherine Knight’s solo show ‘Long Shadows’ is a collection of work inspired by the artist’s visit in February 2022 to Oslo and Åsgårdstrand, a small town on the Oslo Fjord, which was a source of inspiration for the artist Edvard Munch, and where he painted many of his famous works in the 1890s and early 1900s, including Melancholy, Girls on a Bridge, and The Voice. Some of Catherine’s ‘Long Shadows’ paintings are being exhibited at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery (7th March to 3rd June), and a different curation of the same project will be shown at Irving Contemporary’s Oxford gallery in the summer (10th June to 15th July). All works from both exhibitions are available to purchase exclusively through Irving Contemporary.
2022
Gouache on watercolour paper
28 x 19 cm
Float mounted and framed in thin, deep oak frame with a wax finish,
glazed with AR museum glass (anti-reflective)
Framed size 36 x 27.5 cm
£650
(13) in the Long Shadows collection.
Catherine Knight’s solo show ‘Long Shadows’ is a collection of work inspired by the artist’s visit in February 2022 to Oslo and Åsgårdstrand, a small town on the Oslo Fjord, which was a source of inspiration for the artist Edvard Munch, and where he painted many of his famous works in the 1890s and early 1900s, including Melancholy, Girls on a Bridge, and The Voice. Some of Catherine’s ‘Long Shadows’ paintings are being exhibited at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery (7th March to 3rd June), and a different curation of the same project will be shown at Irving Contemporary’s Oxford gallery in the summer (10th June to 15th July). All works from both exhibitions are available to purchase exclusively through Irving Contemporary.
2022
Oil on linen
40 x 30 cm; framed 44.4 x 33.7 x 3.8 cm
Framed in a dark grey-black wooden tray frame