SOLD — At 4.60 metres long, this is one of the largest paintings ever to leave my studio.
Painted on high-quality linen over several months at the beginning of this year, it went through many phases. At first, it was quiet and restrained. This was followed by a phase in which I added green accents using oil paints and spray paint, along with delicate drawn marks. Then came an abundance of colour. Finally, I softened it again through numerous layers of translucent paint.
Yet its entire history remains visible. Earlier marks, colours and decisions still surface through the layers, like a whirlwind that has finally come to rest.
I know that all the energy I pour into my paintings stays within them, even when they are completely painted over and their original character can only be sensed beneath the layers.
It means so much to see this painting find its place in a major collection. A work that occupied such a large part of my studio—and my thoughts—is beginning a new chapter.
#ManuelaKarinKnaut #LargeScalePainting #ContemporaryPainting #AbstractArt #ArtCollection
SOLD — At 4.60 metres long, this is one of the largest paintings ever to leave my studio.
Painted on high-quality linen over several months at the beginning of this year, it went through many phases. At first, it was quiet and restrained. This was followed by a phase in which I added green accents using oil paints and spray paint, along with delicate drawn marks. Then came an abundance of colour. Finally, I softened it again through numerous layers of translucent paint.
Yet its entire history remains visible. Earlier marks, colours and decisions still surface through the layers, like a whirlwind that has finally come to rest.
I know that all the energy I pour into my paintings stays within them, even when they are completely painted over and their original character can only be sensed beneath the layers.
It means so much to see this painting find its place in a major collection. A work that occupied such a large part of my studio—and my thoughts—is beginning a new chapter.
#ManuelaKarinKnaut #LargeScalePainting #ContemporaryPainting #AbstractArt #ArtCollection
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