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Peter Knapp
USA
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"My creative passion has grown and matured over the years, and now, as I stand at these 'Bridges and Crossroads,' I see endless opportunities to explore and create."
Peter's creative passion has grown and matured from his "Healing - Awakening - Resolution" period of the past five years (2018-2023). He was now experiencing a development he called "Bridges and Crossroads," the next step in his career as an artist.
Before the Beyond | Mixed Media
$4,500
Wonder's Wanderings |Mixed Media X 27
Stand or kneel… This work is a record of my own personal experience pondering the “age old questions”. Humanity’s theological and philosophical thinkers as well as artists and musicians in all media, instruments and disciplines have offered, debated and rendered solutions to these thought provoking inquiries throughout history. I admit to discovering no absolutes to help them out.
As he explored nature and our place in it, "Bridges" symbolized a progressive continuity from one piece to the next, while "Crossroads" represented encounters he met en route, decisions required that affected the final outcome.
All Hours Interlude - Shipyard Revisited | Mixed Media
$4,500
24 X 36
A free-spirited “jump into it” approach continued with this 2nd work of the experimental “Interlude Series”, this time with an “all hours“ schedule - morning, noon, and night.
Opportunities were realized with new techniques as well as enhancements to earlier discoveries. “All Hours Interlude - Shipyard Revisited”, like its predecessor, broke new ground, but it also took lessons and work from the past as a bridge into the future.
He graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1972 with a degree in art. His early work consisted of woodcuts and drawings, and to some extent, painting in acrylic and oil.
"In my art, I find solace and healing—a path that has evolved from personal matters to encompass the broader world, all within the embrace of nature."
He continues to be involved with experimentation, invention, and taking risks. The goal is to discover innovative solutions to the challenges presented by his work.
Calm's Chaos - Storm Eye | Mixed Media
$4,500
24 X 36
From a series of 2 works, this piece is more experimental with varied results.
What If...
It began with a “big bang”. Chaos on Earth and in the universe… Fluid and on the move, things happening with its forceful power. Collisions, actions, and reactions…
Calm, the creator and master, the constant and driving force in nature and life itself... Maintaining order with its laws and properties, the results chaos cause used solely for its divine purpose...
From a series of 2 works, this piece is more experimental with varied results.
What If...
It began with a “big bang”. Chaos on Earth and in the universe… Fluid and on the move, things happening with its forceful power. Collisions, actions, and reactions…
Calm, the creator and master, the constant and driving force in nature and life itself... Maintaining order with its laws and properties, the results chaos cause used solely for its divine purpose...
From a series of 2 works, this piece learned lessons from the other.
What If...
It began with a “big bang”. Chaos on Earth and in the universe… Fluid and on the move, things happening with its forceful power. Collisions, actions, and reactions…
Calm, the creator and master, the constant and driving force in nature and life itself... Maintaining order with its laws and properties, the results chaos cause used solely for its divine purpose...
Calm's Chaos - Twilight | Mixed Media
$4,500
24 X 36
Inspired by a number of contemporary and modern artists who have advanced groundbreaking styles and imagery, he hopes to leave behind a portfolio that encourages aspiring artists to cross the current boundaries of their creative process.
"As an artist, I am committed to experimentation and taking risks, for it is in these challenges that I discover innovative solutions."
"I believe that art is not just about the physical but also the spiritual, the real, and the imaginary—a passionate journey I embrace with my entire being."
Art has been a steadfast partner his whole life, but with the day-to-day family financial responsibilities he faced, his dream of fine art as a career was not realized. He now devotes his life to art full-time, with support from his family.
Garden of Geometric Insights | Mixed Media
$5,000
27 X 38
Nature has always been my largest enduring inspiration, and using this as my foundation, I examined and cultivated images of geometric shapes and forms that abound all around me, pondering the marvels and mysteries they evoke. The more I observe and witness the magnificence that nature reveals, the more creative and cleverer I find it to be. It is beyond anything I am capable of imagining within my own mind.
In his 60’s a series of health issues changed this. Illness took a toll on his mind as well as his body. Art became his salvation, providing a healing path that has evolved to include issues beyond the personal - matters in the community, the world, the universe – all within and subservient to nature and our place in it.
Ever excited by the inventive and colorful genius of nature, this mixed media work pays tribute. I am inspired and attracted to areas of lush complexity (i.e. thickets) while contrasting them with areas of open simplicity. Humankind has a compulsion to tame and bring order to it all, and I am no exception.
In the Thick of It | Mixed Media
$4,500
24 X 36
Ever excited by the inventive and colorful genius of nature, this mixed media work pays tribute. I am inspired and attracted to areas of lush complexity (i.e. thickets) while contrasting them with areas of open simplicity. Humankind has a compulsion to tame and bring order to it all, and I am no exception.
With the explosion of information that became available on the internet, he has increased his knowledge of art history and artists throughout the world. He is greatly attracted to modern art, especially the work exhibited in New York City, Boston, and recently the west coast.
Art is my conduit to gaining a sense of inner peace and useful purpose. We all strive in our different ways to find what it is in life we need and face to accomplish this. The anxiety and depression I suffered from after my cardiac arrest in 2012 has been successfully controlled and reduced by confronting this through my work. I have ruminated extensively in this piece over the time-old notions of happiness and despair, hope and hopelessness, joy and anger, good and evil.
Portraits of a Man Much Like Myself, Confronting His Cycle of Ups and Downs | Mixed Media
$5,000
27 X 38
"I draw inspiration from contemporary and modern artists who have dared to push the boundaries of artistic styles and imagery, hoping to inspire others to do the same."
The Prisoner's First Telling | Mixed Media
$2,500
24 X 36
There’s a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about most people leading “lives of quiet desperation”, and there’s a line in The Eagles’ hit song “Hotel California” about being “prisoners of our own device”.
This work confronts these assertions with the premise that they are surmountable. Freedom is surely within anyone’s grasp.
He became enchanted with what computers could do as a tool to augment his varying processes, which also led to photography and graphic software.
A free spirited and experimental “jump into it” approach with many of the work hours spent before dawn…
Opportunities realized with techniques refined or not tried before, “Wee Hours Interlude” broke new ground, pondering life with an adjusted outlook, and observing nature with a fresh perspective.
Wee Hours Interlude | Mixed Media
$4,500
24 X 36
Since 2020 he has been juried into over 30 exhibitions throughout the United States. He had his first solo show in March 2022 at Anchor House of Artists in Northampton Massachusetts.
Wonder's Wanderings |Mixed Media
$4,500
31 X 27
With a belief and faith in my abilities, I have taken to aesthetic wanderings about on the artwork’s surface, working deliberately but spontaneously at the same time, all the while doing my best to keep the excitement of nature’s presence at my side.
"Creating art is my soul's demand for meaningful purpose in our existence. It's a journey that demands solutions, competent execution, and progress—all rooted in my unwavering fealty to nature."
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