Daniela Knobel

My paintings invite you to pause and let impressions unfold through colour, marks, rhythm and movement.

Painting has been part of my life since childhood. What began as a personal and intuitive way of making gradually evolved into the abstract practice I pursue today.

Shaped by landscape, memory and lived experience, my work moves between fragmented references to landscape and increasingly open, gestural abstraction. Rather than depicting specific places, I work with what remains of an experience — shifts of colour, movement, atmosphere and traces of memory.

Working primarily with acrylic and mixed media on canvas, I build my paintings through layers of colour, texture, drawn marks and intuitive gestures. Elements may remain recognisable, while others dissolve into abstraction.

Water, landscape and organic forms often provide the starting point, but the painting gradually develops its own language. What begins with my own experience is left open enough to become something different for each viewer.

Self-taught artist. Independent studio practice and ongoing artistic development in contemporary abstract painting and mixed media.