Medium:

Watercolor and water based mediums

Subject:

Landscapes, Floras, Seascapes

Style:

Expressionistic

Inspiration:

Asian Art, nature, my inner vision

Education:

Duke University BFA. Pratt Institute NY MFA. Boston University Mass MA art history

Biography:

Dustan Knights artistic sensibility is strongly influenced by her post graduate years in New York City. Where she was involved in the Expressionist movement of new artists in the eighties. Like them she believes that art should be a passionate statement from the artist's innermost self. Knights subsequent study in Art History establishes a framework of artistic ideas and ideals giving her work depth and context within the historic dialogue of art and culture.

Knight has been working with watercolors during the past fifteen years and is fascinated by the brilliant fragile color, physical peculiarities and speed with which you can move it. The floras, many as big as 4 x 4 feet, are practically performance works...done, because of the personality of the medium, in one Herculean effort and record the energy, psychological presence and emotional state of the creator. More recognizable images combine the narrative with a more deliberate technique to convey a nostalgia or sense of quiet mystery.

The mixed media and acrylic works have a sculptural heavy presence. The large, mixed media, acrylics are from an ongoing narrative series.