Gerry Knight - At a glance! Gerry has a Degree in fine art painting and printmaking RMIT and a Diploma of Education. Gerry studied under,Geoff Makin, Anothony Proir, Ron Miller and Jim Meldrum. Gerry works full time as a painter, printmaker in her studio in Mt Eliza - Has had four years of regular shows at Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza -Art Melbourne 2008, 2009 -Glenferrie Road Contemporary Art -Glen Eira city Gallery -R.M.I.T Gallery -Portsea Art Gallery -Taught linocut printmaking to Adults at Beaumaris Art society. -Semi finalist “signature of M”,Australia wide Art and Design Prize. -Guest Artist Derinya Art show 2010 -2009 Best Modern Derinya art show. Gerry's work is held here and in America in private collections. Her Lino cut “Melbourne the pulse of a nation”has been purchased by Derinya Primary school for their new Building

Artist personal statement - I am a painter /printmaker working with oil paint and lino cut as my chosen mediums, full time in my studio in Mt Eliza.

I am profoundly moved by colour, often a whole subject of a painting can be based around a colour inspiration and I cannot get it on canvas quickly enough! I paint and print in a predominately expressive contemporary style, focusing on the life force within the subject, I paint more as I feel the subject, rather than how I see it, often with a naive bent.

When I look closely at a landscape the colours speak and dominate. They start to pulsate and take on a life of their own; The blue black of the tree silhouette against the pale haze of the sky, the bold Australian gold red of the cliff surface highlighted by the grey, green foliage. Shapes catch my interest, not just the object but also the negative space in between. I may bring an interesting shape of a curved road, twist and turn it, so that its perspective is distorted and exaggerated and bring this into the picture plane.

Being a printmaker also, my work if often influenced by the Japanese style prints, flat planes of colour and bold dark outlines – a very two dimensional look, this is also evident in my paintings. It is the strong graphic simple styles that please me the most. I also love the shapes such as spirals, squiggles, dots and dashes. I add texture with layers of medium and paint. I like my painting to have a history, brush strokes and line where I have changed the composition and layers of different colours coming through from below. These techniques all add to the history of the work and help tell a story. Often I will paint and print the same subject a few times to totally explore its nuances. I hope my work gives you a sense of a love of life and as much pleasure as it gives me in creating it, yours in art , Gerry Knight.

For more on Gerry Knight see www.manyunggallery.com.au