Karina Knight

I paint interiors and people. I am also active in promoting peace. I paint to commission of both portraits and interiors..

Interiors
I paint the mystery of spaces, the beauty of architecture and furnishings but primarily the light in inspirational interiors in oil and watercolour and pastel.. Among others I am influenced by SInger Sergeant, Zorn, Vermeer and the dutch school, Hammershoi, Jeremiah Goodman and Vuillard.

I work in the traditional way of developing the picture plane so a senses of entering into the space is created. I want the viewer to be able to lose themselves in the interior, lose time , dream and enjoy the sense of anticipation as to what will happen next , who will come in or what has just happened here. There is a narrative that the viewer develops. The viewer is invited into the picture to make the space their own , hopefully feel at home , or uplifted or just a little unsettled.


There is an increasing interest in paintings of interiors and I am collected as there are not so many painters who work like this. Probably my past experience as an interior designer has helped. Following in the tradition of the Dutch and Danish interior painters, who made records of interiors my work is more parr...

I spent 3 years training as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. After 7 years as a professional actor and part-time sculptor I studied 3-D design at Ipswich University to become an interior designer which led to working in Brunei and running my own design company in Singapore. I later became an interior illustrator, primarily working on hotel interiors. In 2006 I dedicated myself to full-time painting and drawing, frequently working to commission.,

Exhibitions 2021 You are always welcome to visit my studio and gallery in South West France, near Cahors. Please email to arrange a visit.
If you are in Paris you can view my paintings at a gallery on the Isle St Louis, contact me for details, :I might meet you there and I have two exhibitions in South West France, which were postponed from 2020
Solo exhibition Conversations with light Galerie Ap'art
Perigieux, April 12 - 24
Goujoun;art May 22 -30