Alana Knuff

Drawing and painting have been a part of my life since childhood. As young as five, I remember drawing. I drew mostly from my imagination and observations. People were a favorite subject. My mother, a graduate of the Cleveland Art Institute, encouraged me to enter a national art contest sponsored by Kellogg. At age nine, my color pencil drawing took second place.
Both the artistic and the analytic shape my life. Left and right brain hold equal sway. My degree in math gave me a comfortable career in Capital Project Management. I directed and managed building design and construction for Harvard University and the University of Texas. Threw those years, I often did portraits in pastel and pen and ink renderings.
Wherever available, I would visit art museums. The masterpieces beckoned me, and I knew that someday I would paint the art that lived inside me.
In 2007, I joined a group of artists painting en plein air in Italy. That trip was a turning point. The following year I retired and began a second career as an artist.
My formal art training began with life drawing and design the first year of college. Between 2008 to 2010, daily painting, one day workshops and reading art books helped me climb a steep learning curve. In 2011, I co...

BA Degree University of Detroit - Mathematics

My painting titled "Barche da Pesca Portofino" is on display with the American Society of Marine Artist in a two-year museum tour at the Albany Institute of History and Art and the Minesota Marine Art Museum.

Koger Center for the Arts - 1593 Project
Reception April 8th 5 to 7 PM by appointment.

Exhibit runs until August 2021. On exhibit in the lobby is “The Boys” and in the second floor gallery “Morning Among the Pines.”

18th National Exhibit of the American Society of Marine Artists
March 6, 2020 to September 2021

My painting entitled Barche a remi – Isola de Capri has been selected for the 18th National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists. I am thrilled and honored. It wil be on tour for two years in the five museums listed above.