Catherine Knight, Long Shadows
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 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’.
Catherine Knight is a painter from Bristol who works in oils, gouache, and watercolours. She layers personal and collective stories into her paintings through landscapes, which are real, imagined and remembered.
Catherine was born in Cornwall and she did her Foundation Course at Falmouth College of Arts (2000-2001). She gained her BA Hons degree in Fine Art (with First Class Honours) at the University of Wales Institute of Cardiff (2001-2004), and later completed a MA in Fine Art at Bath Spa University (2007-2008, with Distinction).
