“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton ✨🎶
310 × 160 cm of memories, movement, and New Orleans. 🎨🌈
Painted during my stay in the USA, this work became a travel diary on canvas. 🇺🇸📖 This particular chapter takes me back to the Dolly parade in honour of Dolly Parton in the French Quarter—the colour, the people, the sheer joy of being there. 🎉💃🪩
My own handwriting, drawn marks, and collage elements weave through the painting, gathering fragments of everything I experienced. ✍️🖌️🧩 Layer upon layer, the canvas carries the energy and exuberance of those days. 🌟🔥
A thought that resonates deeply with the way I paint: trusting my own voice and letting life find its way into the work. 💫❤️
#ManuelaKarinKnaut #ContemporaryPainting #ArtAsATravelDiary #NewOrleans #DollyParton
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton ✨🎶
310 × 160 cm of memories, movement, and New Orleans. 🎨🌈
Painted during my stay in the USA, this work became a travel diary on canvas. 🇺🇸📖 This particular chapter takes me back to the Dolly parade in honour of Dolly Parton in the French Quarter—the colour, the people, the sheer joy of being there. 🎉💃🪩
My own handwriting, drawn marks, and collage elements weave through the painting, gathering fragments of everything I experienced. ✍️🖌️🧩 Layer upon layer, the canvas carries the energy and exuberance of those days. 🌟🔥
A thought that resonates deeply with the way I paint: trusting my own voice and letting life find its way into the work. 💫❤️
#ManuelaKarinKnaut #ContemporaryPainting #ArtAsATravelDiary #NewOrleans #DollyParton
Five weeks in the USA, and I had the best time. Coming home full of inspiration, new connections, and possibilities. ✨
Message me for my portfolio of available works.
#ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #ArtCollectors #AvailableArt #KnautContemporary
Five weeks in the USA, and I had the best time. Coming home full of inspiration, new connections, and possibilities. ✨
Message me for my portfolio of available works.
#ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #ArtCollectors #AvailableArt #KnautContemporary
What’s next?
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#art #artcollector #contemporaryart #femaleentrepreneur #manuelakarinknaut
What’s next?
📷@weltdinge
#art #artcollector #contemporaryart #femaleentrepreneur #manuelakarinknaut
“Painting is not separate from life, it is one. It is like asking, do I want to live? My answer is yes, and I paint.”
— Lee Krasner
Today, a little blue. Or rather, a whole world of it.
Blue has a way of drawing me in. Sometimes quiet and spacious, sometimes bold and restless. I return to it again and again, and it always leaves room for something unexpected.
These paintings hold traces of that exchange: a feeling becoming a gesture, a gesture becoming a colour, a colour opening up a new possibility.
Here’s to paying attention to what moves us—and making room for more of it. 💙
#ManuelaKarinKnaut #ShadesOfBlue #AbstractPainting #ContemporaryArt #LifeInColour
“Painting is not separate from life, it is one. It is like asking, do I want to live? My answer is yes, and I paint.”
— Lee Krasner
Today, a little blue. Or rather, a whole world of it.
Blue has a way of drawing me in. Sometimes quiet and spacious, sometimes bold and restless. I return to it again and again, and it always leaves room for something unexpected.
These paintings hold traces of that exchange: a feeling becoming a gesture, a gesture becoming a colour, a colour opening up a new possibility.
Here’s to paying attention to what moves us—and making room for more of it. 💙
#ManuelaKarinKnaut #ShadesOfBlue #AbstractPainting #ContemporaryArt #LifeInColour
STOP PLAYING SMALL.
A title that challenges me, too.
In the studio, I return to the moment when a painting asks for more than I planned to give: more freedom, a bolder decision, the courage to disrupt what already works.
As a woman artist, I know the quiet voices telling us to be careful, take up less space, and lower our ambitions. But art begins where we stop shrinking.
Painting means staying with uncertainty long enough for something unexpected to emerge. Trusting intuition. Knowing when restraint serves the work—and when it is simply fear in disguise.
“Stop Playing Small” is more than a title. It is a call to think bigger, dream beyond what feels reasonable, and stop holding back the parts of us that demand expression.
A painting becomes compelling when it exceeds my intentions. Perhaps we do, too.
We do not have to become smaller to make others comfortable. We are allowed to grow, be visible, and take up space.
#ManuelaKarinKnaut #ContemporaryPainting #AbstractPainting #PaintingPractice #StopPlayingSmall
STOP PLAYING SMALL.
A title that challenges me, too.
In the studio, I return to the moment when a painting asks for more than I planned to give: more freedom, a bolder decision, the courage to disrupt what already works.
As a woman artist, I know the quiet voices telling us to be careful, take up less space, and lower our ambitions. But art begins where we stop shrinking.
Painting means staying with uncertainty long enough for something unexpected to emerge. Trusting intuition. Knowing when restraint serves the work—and when it is simply fear in disguise.
“Stop Playing Small” is more than a title. It is a call to think bigger, dream beyond what feels reasonable, and stop holding back the parts of us that demand expression.
A painting becomes compelling when it exceeds my intentions. Perhaps we do, too.
We do not have to become smaller to make others comfortable. We are allowed to grow, be visible, and take up space.
#ManuelaKarinKnaut #ContemporaryPainting #AbstractPainting #PaintingPractice #StopPlayingSmall
“Where would you go if you could go anywhere?”
Embedded in the painted surface, this question introduces a legible voice into a field of interruptions. Language briefly anchors the eye, while the surrounding marks pull it elsewhere.
Across this 180 × 120 cm work, layered whites partially obscure a loose architecture of black forms. Pink gestures cut through the surface, shifting between drawing and handwriting. Overpainting holds these different registers together without fully reconciling them; earlier marks remain active beneath subsequent layers.
My interest lies in this tension between what can be read and what can only be encountered through looking. The sentence offers an apparently direct point of entry, but its conditional phrasing leaves something unresolved: what does the imagined freedom of “anywhere” depend upon?
The question remains suspended within the material decisions of the painting—between assertion and erasure, movement and constraint.
#ManuelaKarinKnaut #ContemporaryPainting #TextBasedArt #ExpandedPainting #ContemporaryArt
“Where would you go if you could go anywhere?”
Embedded in the painted surface, this question introduces a legible voice into a field of interruptions. Language briefly anchors the eye, while the surrounding marks pull it elsewhere.
Across this 180 × 120 cm work, layered whites partially obscure a loose architecture of black forms. Pink gestures cut through the surface, shifting between drawing and handwriting. Overpainting holds these different registers together without fully reconciling them; earlier marks remain active beneath subsequent layers.
My interest lies in this tension between what can be read and what can only be encountered through looking. The sentence offers an apparently direct point of entry, but its conditional phrasing leaves something unresolved: what does the imagined freedom of “anywhere” depend upon?
The question remains suspended within the material decisions of the painting—between assertion and erasure, movement and constraint.
#ManuelaKarinKnaut #ContemporaryPainting #TextBasedArt #ExpandedPainting #ContemporaryArt