Start a little trouble. Those first marks don’t need to make you feel safe. Give yourself a problem worth solving—and let the painting begin.
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Start a little trouble. Those first marks don’t need to make you feel safe. Give yourself a problem worth solving—and let the painting begin.
#AbstractPainting #PaintingProcess #ContemporaryArt #IntuitivePainting #KnautContemporary
Layers of life. And a little love.
I keep returning to reused materials, to surfaces with stories already built into them. I sign on the back, leaving the work’s history fully visible.
This one has finally found its ending—and holds everything that matters to me: colour, texture, memory, play. And love.
40 × 40 cm · Acrylic, oil and collage on wood panel.
Currently available.
#ContemporaryPainting #MixedMediaArt #ArtCollectors #SmallScaleArt #ManuelaKarinKnaut
Layers of life. And a little love.
I keep returning to reused materials, to surfaces with stories already built into them. I sign on the back, leaving the work’s history fully visible.
This one has finally found its ending—and holds everything that matters to me: colour, texture, memory, play. And love.
40 × 40 cm · Acrylic, oil and collage on wood panel.
Currently available.
#ContemporaryPainting #MixedMediaArt #ArtCollectors #SmallScaleArt #ManuelaKarinKnaut
♥️ from me to you, fellow artists and friends
Formal Echoes
I’m interested in what a gesture leaves behind. In this work, pink pushes through layers of white, while violet marks interrupt the surface. Some traces remain visible; others almost disappear. I like that tension—and how it shifts each time I return to the painting.
165 × 190 cm
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Formal Echoes
I’m interested in what a gesture leaves behind. In this work, pink pushes through layers of white, while violet marks interrupt the surface. Some traces remain visible; others almost disappear. I like that tension—and how it shifts each time I return to the painting.
165 × 190 cm
#ContemporaryPainting #AbstractPainting #ArtCollectors #ArtCurators #ManuelaKarinKnaut
Sold, and now at home in a collection in California. A new setting for a work that began with experimentation.
ARRIVAL, 120/100/4 cm
Created during an artist residency, this painting is one of six works that opened up new possibilities in my practice. For the first time, I brought oil, acrylic, ink and concrete together on a specially prepared canvas.
Concrete changed the way I could paint. Its resistance and uneven texture shaped how colour settled, how ink travelled and where a gesture would break. The surface became an active part of the process.
Smoky blues and muted greys meet intense ultramarine, while green lines move across the composition like fragments of unfinished handwriting. Somewhere between abstraction and landscape, the painting holds traces of erosion, movement and memory.
Working with an unfamiliar material meant allowing the unexpected to stay—and letting it shape the work.
#ContemporaryPainting #MaterialExploration #AbstractPainting #ArtCollectors #ContemporaryArt
Sold, and now at home in a collection in California. A new setting for a work that began with experimentation.
ARRIVAL, 120/100/4 cm
Created during an artist residency, this painting is one of six works that opened up new possibilities in my practice. For the first time, I brought oil, acrylic, ink and concrete together on a specially prepared canvas.
Concrete changed the way I could paint. Its resistance and uneven texture shaped how colour settled, how ink travelled and where a gesture would break. The surface became an active part of the process.
Smoky blues and muted greys meet intense ultramarine, while green lines move across the composition like fragments of unfinished handwriting. Somewhere between abstraction and landscape, the painting holds traces of erosion, movement and memory.
Working with an unfamiliar material meant allowing the unexpected to stay—and letting it shape the work.
#ContemporaryPainting #MaterialExploration #AbstractPainting #ArtCollectors #ContemporaryArt
Where the Sky Falls
160 × 100 cm
What happens when the sky loses its distance?
In Where the Sky Falls, blue takes on a physical presence. Dense passages of colour meet translucent edges, while dark, directional marks interrupt the softer movement of paint. A pale opening runs through the composition, holding its expansive colour fields apart and drawing them into relation.
Without a fixed horizon, the eye moves between atmospheric depth and the material surface of the painting. Gestural traces bring that sense of distance back to the scale of the hand and the body.
The title unsettles our understanding of the sky as something distant and weightless. Here, it acquires gravity. The work holds openness and compression, beauty and unease, within the same pictorial space.
#ContemporaryPainting #AbstractPainting #MaterialityInArt #ContemporaryArt #ManuelaKarinKnaut
Where the Sky Falls
160 × 100 cm
What happens when the sky loses its distance?
In Where the Sky Falls, blue takes on a physical presence. Dense passages of colour meet translucent edges, while dark, directional marks interrupt the softer movement of paint. A pale opening runs through the composition, holding its expansive colour fields apart and drawing them into relation.
Without a fixed horizon, the eye moves between atmospheric depth and the material surface of the painting. Gestural traces bring that sense of distance back to the scale of the hand and the body.
The title unsettles our understanding of the sky as something distant and weightless. Here, it acquires gravity. The work holds openness and compression, beauty and unease, within the same pictorial space.
#ContemporaryPainting #AbstractPainting #MaterialityInArt #ContemporaryArt #ManuelaKarinKnaut