Catherine Knight, 'Glimpse'

“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.

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 Contemporary, Oxford.