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Christopher Knights is a Toronto-based artist who has exhibited extensively in major Canadian cities as well as NYC and China. He studied at Sheridan College of Applied Arts, and has been recognized with awards such as “Best Painting” and “City Archive Purchase Award” at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Knight's paintings exhibit a profoundly emotive style and provide the viewer with a window into the mind of the artist. The thick, textured application of paint brings life to each canvas, and results in a truly immersive work of art.
Knights is interested in merging a conversation between the natural world and man-made technology in a way which embraces and amalgamates both unique differences. He states that the two are not converse to each other, but rather a harmonious and beautiful macrocosm. His work flirts with the viewer in a way that softens a potential heavy motif, and invokes a playfully inquisitive mood. Each painting is its own journey—an expedition Knights undertakes, through use of a personal language in order to allow the experience of intuitive creation. The artist's stream-of-consciousness style is present in each textured brushstroke and symbolic representation of form.
Knights’ process is an ebb and flow of spontaneous and precise mark-making, exploring the relationship between intention and chance. He allows each mark to communicate with the next, creating a progression of risk-taking and problem-solving moments. Any preconceived ideas of what the image should or could be are resolved, allowing the work to evolve from one mark to the next.
Christopher Knights is a Toronto-based artist who has exhibited extensively in major Canadian cities as well as NYC and China. He studied at Sheridan College of Applied Arts, and has been recognized with awards such as “Best Painting” and “City Archive Purchase Award” at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Knight's paintings exhibit a profoundly emotive style and provide the viewer with a window into the mind of the artist. The thick, textured application of paint brings life to each canvas, and results in a truly immersive work of art.
Knights is interested in merging a conversation between the natural world and man-made technology in a way which embraces and amalgamates both unique differences. He states that the two are not converse to each other, but rather a harmonious and beautiful macrocosm. His work flirts with the viewer in a way that softens a potential heavy motif, and invokes a playfully inquisitive mood. Each painting is its own journey—an expedition Knights undertakes, through use of a personal language in order to allow the experience of intuitive creation. The artist's stream-of-consciousness style is present in each textured brushstroke and symbolic representation of form.
Knights’ process is an ebb and flow of spontaneous and precise mark-making, exploring the relationship between intention and chance. He allows each mark to communicate with the next, creating a progression of risk-taking and problem-solving moments. Any preconceived ideas of what the image should or could be are resolved, allowing the work to evolve from one mark to the next.
"Jumble Jam"
2019
Original oil and acrylic on panel
60 x 48 in.
"Zot"
2019
Original oil and acrylic on panel
66 x 45 in.
"Happy Chance"
2022
Original mixed media on panel
60 x 48 in.
"Electric Screen Dot"
2019
Original oil and acrylic on panel
12 x 48 in.
"Flying Tiger"
2019
Original oil and acrylic on panel
24 x 18 in.
"Eldorado"
2022
Original mixed media on canvas
72 x 48 in.
"Feels like Freedom"
2021
Original mixed media on canvas
59 x 59 in.