Alan Knight

Born in Swinton, Lancashire in 1949, art was always my first love at school. After leaving school in1965 I applied to enter Bolton Art College, was accepted on the Foundation course but, due to parental pressure, “you’ll never make a living as an artist”, abandoned all aesthetic pursuits and started work in Local Government.

Of course if art is in your blood it will always surface throughout your life. The creative urge can’t be suppressed. It must be expressed. With me music became my means of expression (guitar, banjo, and mandolin) to the preference of visual art and for twelve years I was on the road in a comedy jug band called Brownsville Banned

After this ran its course I drifted back to painting and drawing again and in 1989 did a foundation course in art and design at Salford University. This was the kick start that I needed and since then my enthusiasm and commitment towards producing something important and of quality has steadily grown. Now art is my vocation not my interest!

In my paintings I love to use oil paint thickly, creating textures with painting knives, fingers, rags & sticks.

The painting process for me is one of intense concentration and excitement. I need to loose myself in the act of painting, surrendering to those inner promptings and intuitions to produce that truthfulness of expression that for me has a roughness and rawness.

Each painting is a confrontation, a battle with media, mind and reality, to produce another reality determined by the laws of aesthetics.

Some of Alans’ other work can be viewed at www.artinthecity.co.uk

For more information you can contact Alan on:
Email: knight54610@hotmail.com
Mobile: 07890 461 791