User:Horatio4/Artists biography pat knight

Pat Knight BA Hons. Artist in mixed media & watercolour & printmaker. Born in industrial town of Manchester, England in 1940`s. Graduated from Northbrook College Sussex in Worthing (Affil. Brighton University) in 2007 with a BA Honours degree in Fine Art Painting. For my degree studies, memory and loss became the focus of my art, an emotional response to memories of places I have been or might have been. Much of my inspiration came from disused buildings and industrial sites and a desire to recreate the atmosphere and drama of these scenes in my work, intentionally seeking to evoke in the viewer sensations of atmospheric vibration. My final degree works of screenprints & etchings were based on Geevor Tin mines in Cornwall and used as a metaphor for the Holocaust and destroyed communities. Since graduating, my studio practice is currently undergoing a change from the industrial to abstract landscapes; my experience of being out in the rural and coastal landscape that surrounds my home. I work on wood, paper and canvas using layers of acrylic and oil paints into which I scratch and dribble thin glazes to achieve textured, multi faceted paintings. My work can be found in private collections and offices. Exhibitions at Brick Lane, London Saatchi-gallery online and various venues around Sussex. web sites: www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart www.artgallery.co.uk