Picket Fence, Lexington, NY
Midnight Delivery
Giant Ledges
Peninsula, Lewey Lake
Meltdown, the Oval, Plattsburgh
The Thumb, Navajo Nat. Park
On the Rocks
Deyo Hall, Huguenot St.
Loon Bay
Blue Mountain
Tetons from Leigh Lake
Drake's Wake
Beached
Canopy
Backyards, Huguenot St.
French Church Huguenot St.
Mink Hollow fr. Cooper L.
Yebeche, Navajo Nat. Park
Lewey Lake Dawn
So Memory Goes, eclipse
Sperm Whale Cow & Calf
Grog Kill Pond
Lemhi Valley Ranch
Indian Lake, Lunch Time
Indian Lake, Supper Time
Narrowsburg Bridge
Turning the Hay, Sprakers
Alan McKnight
Artist Statement
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I began art lessons when I was five. Later I minored in art at Oberlin College. When urban conflicts and the war in Vietnam heated up, I took up graphic arts and illustration in New Haven, CT, and continued that work in Saugerties, NY, where I ran my own graphic arts studio. In 1980 I returned to the study of painting under Robert Angeloch.
I am an active member of the Woodstock Artists Association and have received several awards there as well as in Teton County, ID, where I lived for 13 years.
I have always favored watercolor -- for its affects, its natural colors, the light coming through its pigments, the ease of working in the field, and its durability. (Acid-free paper can long outlast canvas, and I use the most permanently stable paints available.
I'm currently concentrating on simpler compositions with strongly contrasting light values. I strive to compose paintings that work as abstract images but also have realistic meaning. I try to share an appreciation for our habitat that gets lost in the hurry-up culture of commerce and politics. The race for fame and posterity is pretty futile if there isn't enough stewardship of the air, water and soil to sustain life.