THE BIG EASY
210 × 140 cm
Play first. Pull the threads together later.
In abstract painting, I give myself time to get lost. Follow a line. Let a colour take over. Make a move without knowing where it will lead.
But there comes a moment when playing turns into choosing. I pick up the loose threads, decide what stays, what needs space, and what might connect it all. Until the painting becomes a whole that makes sense to me. Right then, in that moment. Still wild. Still room to breathe.
A little like New Orleans—different rhythms, unexpected encounters, and somehow, it all belongs.
#TheBigEasy #NewOrleansArt #NOLAArt #LargeScalePainting #KnautContemporary
THE BIG EASY
210 × 140 cm
Play first. Pull the threads together later.
In abstract painting, I give myself time to get lost. Follow a line. Let a colour take over. Make a move without knowing where it will lead.
But there comes a moment when playing turns into choosing. I pick up the loose threads, decide what stays, what needs space, and what might connect it all. Until the painting becomes a whole that makes sense to me. Right then, in that moment. Still wild. Still room to breathe.
A little like New Orleans—different rhythms, unexpected encounters, and somehow, it all belongs.
#TheBigEasy #NewOrleansArt #NOLAArt #LargeScalePainting #KnautContemporary
No particular order. Just bits and pieces of this wonderfully wild life I love so much.
Art, travel, new places, unexpected people, plans changing along the way. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Thanks for following along. 🤍
#ArtistOnTheRoad #ArtAndTravel #CreativeLife #TravelDiaries #ManuelaKarinKnaut
No particular order. Just bits and pieces of this wonderfully wild life I love so much.
Art, travel, new places, unexpected people, plans changing along the way. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Thanks for following along. 🤍
#ArtistOnTheRoad #ArtAndTravel #CreativeLife #TravelDiaries #ManuelaKarinKnaut
“Who said flowers have to behave?”
Unregular Bunch of Flowers
A bouquet with a mind of its own. A little unruly, full of movement, and all the better for it.
125 × 125 cm | approx. 49 × 49 in
#flowers #art
“Who said flowers have to behave?”
Unregular Bunch of Flowers
A bouquet with a mind of its own. A little unruly, full of movement, and all the better for it.
125 × 125 cm | approx. 49 × 49 in
#flowers #art
Amid all the wonderful travels and inspiring encounters here in the United States, life at my studio in Germany continues to unfold.
This beautiful triptych will soon find its home in a private collection in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The thought makes me both happy and proud.
As I travel, I gather inspiration and energy from the places I see and the people I meet. That energy finds its way into my work—and through my paintings, it continues its journey into the homes of my collectors.
What a beautiful thought: the journey doesn’t end at the studio.
#ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #Triptych #ArtCollectors #manuelakarinknaut
Amid all the wonderful travels and inspiring encounters here in the United States, life at my studio in Germany continues to unfold.
This beautiful triptych will soon find its home in a private collection in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The thought makes me both happy and proud.
As I travel, I gather inspiration and energy from the places I see and the people I meet. That energy finds its way into my work—and through my paintings, it continues its journey into the homes of my collectors.
What a beautiful thought: the journey doesn’t end at the studio.
#ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #Triptych #ArtCollectors #manuelakarinknaut
This painting carries the essence of four extraordinary days of creating together in the incredibly supportive atmosphere of @woodwardcontemporary in San Diego.
It was created in the studio after the official workshop day had ended. Everyone had gone home, the conversations had faded, and only a few people remained. The space had become quiet.
Throughout the day, I had seen my role as guiding, encouraging, and supporting the participants—helping them take risks, trust their instincts, and move more freely within their own work. But when the studio finally fell silent, I felt an urgent need to turn toward my own canvas and translate everything I had absorbed—the conversations, the energy, the encounters, and the intensity of our shared creative process—into paint.
Perhaps that is why this work contains so much of what matters to me in my art right now: vitality and spontaneity, bold gestures and generous brushstrokes, but also a continual return to the very essence of painting.
It is about freedom. About trusting the moment. About allowing a painting to unfold without knowing where it will lead.
And above all, it carries the certainty that there is still so much more to come.
This is only the beginning—and for me, this painting embodies precisely that feeling.
#ContemporaryPainting #AbstractArt #CreativeFreedom #WoodwardContemporary
@woodward.contemporary
This painting carries the essence of four extraordinary days of creating together in the incredibly supportive atmosphere of @woodwardcontemporary in San Diego.
It was created in the studio after the official workshop day had ended. Everyone had gone home, the conversations had faded, and only a few people remained. The space had become quiet.
Throughout the day, I had seen my role as guiding, encouraging, and supporting the participants—helping them take risks, trust their instincts, and move more freely within their own work. But when the studio finally fell silent, I felt an urgent need to turn toward my own canvas and translate everything I had absorbed—the conversations, the energy, the encounters, and the intensity of our shared creative process—into paint.
Perhaps that is why this work contains so much of what matters to me in my art right now: vitality and spontaneity, bold gestures and generous brushstrokes, but also a continual return to the very essence of painting.
It is about freedom. About trusting the moment. About allowing a painting to unfold without knowing where it will lead.
And above all, it carries the certainty that there is still so much more to come.
This is only the beginning—and for me, this painting embodies precisely that feeling.
#ContemporaryPainting #AbstractArt #CreativeFreedom #WoodwardContemporary
@woodward.contemporary
Two weeks into my journey through California, I find myself surrounded by new impressions: inspiring gallery visits, remarkable museums in the Los Angeles area, conversations about art, the vastness of the landscape, and the architectural treasures of Palm Springs.
I have been looking, listening, discovering—and gathering ideas that will undoubtedly find their way into my work.
At the same time, life in my studio back in Germany continues. From afar, I have had the wonderful privilege of seeing several of my paintings find their way into new collections. Knowing that these works are beginning another chapter in new surroundings fills me with happiness and gratitude.
Movement in two directions: while I travel towards new experiences, my paintings travel out into the world.
Thank you to everyone who follows, supports, collects, and believes in my work. California continues—and so does the story.
#LosAngeles #ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #CaliforniaInspiration #PalmSpringsArchitecture
Two weeks into my journey through California, I find myself surrounded by new impressions: inspiring gallery visits, remarkable museums in the Los Angeles area, conversations about art, the vastness of the landscape, and the architectural treasures of Palm Springs.
I have been looking, listening, discovering—and gathering ideas that will undoubtedly find their way into my work.
At the same time, life in my studio back in Germany continues. From afar, I have had the wonderful privilege of seeing several of my paintings find their way into new collections. Knowing that these works are beginning another chapter in new surroundings fills me with happiness and gratitude.
Movement in two directions: while I travel towards new experiences, my paintings travel out into the world.
Thank you to everyone who follows, supports, collects, and believes in my work. California continues—and so does the story.
#LosAngeles #ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #CaliforniaInspiration #PalmSpringsArchitecture