Aislinn Knight: Currently...

2024 Looking at ways to interpret aerial views of ancient sites.

Landscape of somewhere around Nebo area

APRIL and MAY 2023

Painted stones for Facebook group "ABER ROCKS"

Collage.

April 2023. Painting stones for my garden. This is taking me back in time to the late 1970s when I would search for the perfect stone on Clarch beach. So relaxing 😌

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April 2023. This collage started out as an experiment, and I thoroughly enjoyed cutting and pasting all the pieces together to form the final image. Pure joy!

Collage
Multi media on mountboard
14" x 12"

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March 2023. I had a go at making a Mandala. I have never looked at mindfullness art therapy before, so found myself thoroughly enjoying colouring in all the beautiful shapes. Very relaxing.

Mandala
10" x!0"
Multi media on paper

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I finished this work at the end of February and I gave it to a friend of mine whose son is autistic as he loves colourful paintings. It made me so happy to hear that his reaction on seeing it for the first time was "WOW" Seems he loves it. :-)

Mid Wales
Oil on canvas
20" x 16"

I think I'm obsessed with this view from the hills behind The Wildfowler in Tre'ddol. My interpretation though not exactly topographical. I've completed the outline underpainting in acrylics, now to start layering the detail in oils. Showing work in progress...

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Finally finished this painting January 2023.

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Christmas 2022

Water-colours a new and challenging experience for me. I am enjoying myself making smaller works and getting "crafty". Made a few Christmas cards for close friends too, robins and angels galore! 😇

April 2022

Back to working on this painting which I originally started in 2015. Still some way to go...

2020

Jul 2021

Happy to be back in my studio working up a sketch I did a couple of months ago into a final piece for a good friend of mine who is missing Lanzarote. Finally finished, mounted and framed 26 Jul 2021 for Helen, Lag-Omar Memories, acrylic on mount-board.

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June 2021

Out and about at last, I visited Bwlch Nant Yr Arian yesterday, I do love visiting this place and inspires me always to get back into the studio.

15 Jun 2021 Bwlch Nant Yr Arian

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Covid 19 still with us - May 2021

I'm hoping to go to Lanzarote one day soon but cannot even consider this whilst mask wearing and social distancing is required in order to stay safe. For now I dream of my favourite place to be for quiet contemplation with a soothing frothy cappuccino and a slice of lemon cake, LagOmar, Nazaret.

Lag-Omar 2021 My Memory
Oil on canvas

Lag-Omar painted on site in 2009
Acrylic on canvas

photo 2017

Progress in oils

Acrylic sketch

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After a long break...now June 2020 in lock-down due to Covid19 outbreak.. finally back in the studio.

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June 2018

I have not spent much time in my studio lately, I've been a bit lost in a cultural desert of my own making. Every now and then a flicker of "something", I notice "it", and there is a spark but not enough to motivate me into getting on with some work. I've even found a name for it, I call it "benign inspiration". This summer is turning out to be very unusual for this area, no rain for weeks, not a cloud in the sky as we are in the middle of a heat-wave. My garden is looking particularly splendid this year, the roses are spectacular and as I can sit out and enjoy the warm weather I found myself looking at the petal shapes, stems and leaves, wanting to sketch them before they fade and fall. I picked up a new sketch book a few days ago and it has drawn me in, with it's empty pages and beautiful paper, just right weight and softness for pencil and watercolour paints, I've been doodling... all the flowers in the garden, looking at shadows, various colours and shapes. It has been a slow process but today, 1st July I'm starting to look beyond my garden gate to venture back out into the hills, my old and familiar friend, always there just for want of seeing again, the beautiful landscape of Mid Wales which surrounds where I live. I am so lucky to have all this on my doorstep and will be making the most of it again.