Ken Knight

8th -18th May

Ken Knight is one ofAustralia’s leading plein air painters, As such, he follows a rich lineage of artists – from Australian Impressionists Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts to Van Gogh and the great French Impressionists – who have captured the essence of landscape by taking their easels outdoors.

Ken’s gift is that he is able to evoke the painterly vision of these masters, but with a boldness and freshness that is entirely contemporary.  Viewed up close his paintings are brilliantly abstract, made up of a myriad of converging brushstrokes and swirls of thick paint.  Stand back a few paces, and the mass of brushstrokes resolve into a landscape full of texture, mood, time and place.