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Artist Spotlight: Kris Knight

A selection of paintings by Canadian artist Kris Knight (previously featured here). He describes his sensitive male portraits as blurring the lines “between dream and reality, historical and contemporary, light and dark.” Exploring notions of performance, both everyday and theatrical, his pastel and tonal oil paintings conjure “a series of shifting moods, themes and experiences that are connected by a wide range of positions regarding the private and public self.” 

See more from Kris Knight below!

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