Jackie’s Menagerie of Monsters
Jackie Knight - April 2024April 1 - 30, 2024 Reception: Sun, April 14, 2 pm Artist Statement I draw a wide variety of creatures, monsters and ghouls. Some of my recurring themes are skulls, eyes, and teeth. Lately I have been experimenting with adding texture to the figures in my paintings. I like to start projects without a plan and see where my marker takes me. I view the line work process as bringing a creature into existence, and every mistake or added line is part of its journey onto the canvas. I prefer to start and finish a painting all in one sitting if I have the time, although that does not always happen. Ideally, each piece will be creepy, but fun and interesting to look at once it is finished. I attribute a lot of my influence to always being interested in the stranger and more macabre parts of life. I was and still am very interested in a variety of creepy crawlies, deep sea creatures, and skeletal structures. My artwork has been attributed to Hieronymus Bosch, Adventure Time, and Kieth Haring. |