Kate Knapp Artist Blog

Landscapes, portraits, farm animals, drawings, watercolors, oils, still lifes, the Berkshires, Block Island, St Croix and Manhattan. Expressionistic, Impressionistic color studies.

Friday, August 25, 2023

2023 Block Island Summer Show

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I painted this study in  June on a beautiful spring day. There was a breeze and the light was lovely on the porch. Some small towels blow in...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

Block Island Paintings Lost in the Mail

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 Our Block island Backyard 22x30" wc gouache  House on East Side 22x30" wc gouache These beautiful paintings were purchased and pa...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

510 Warren St Gallery Hudson NY Exhibit February 4-28 2022 Recent Work

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     Here is a study painted in Oct-Nov 2021  of the last bouquet picked by Anna Oliver in her garden...I truly enjoyed the time I spent wit...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Music in the Studio

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 Mike, my husband, likes to come to the studio and pick up the guitar to serenade me...It's always a pleasure. Here is the instrument si...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Summer Garden in the Berkshires

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 A beautiful day at my friends house painting the perennial border... a warm breeze a lovely old house and distant hills gives me everything...
Friday, August 13, 2021

The Andrew's House Porch Block Island

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 A lovely autumn day and the shadows are cast revealing so much beauty ....This was the first house I stayed in on Block Island....60 years ...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Self Portrait on My Birthday

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 Well it seems the winter has disappeared and I have neglected my Blog! I do think of it all the time but have gotten into the habit of usin...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Sunset with Snow Alford MA

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 The sunsets have been magnificent and a new challenge with the snowy ground. I seem to want to simplify the trees and stay focused on the s...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Wood Pile at Jim and Julie's House Alford

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 Well somehow I missed October? I have been very busy with life and painting....trying to avoid covid?....I spent several lovely summer days...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Block Island Autumn Sunset

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 A desolate view from our island home painted many years ago...and yet the same as today...having spent the last week on island painting and...
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Sunday, August 2, 2020

Block Island Landscapes Changing Light at Jessie Edwards Gallery BI 7/31/20. -8/12/20

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Here are some recent paintings of the Island....24x24 oil Sunset and Wiggle Trees.  24x30 Mansion Beach  Morning Light...
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Friday, June 19, 2020

My Corona Covid19 Experience

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 Working in my studio , March April May, as the world spun into pandemic fear and suffering I decided to try and paint what might expres...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Dreaming of the Tropics as it Snows in April During the Pandemic

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This chair caught my eye in the Caribbean Museum in Fredricksted St Croix USVI ....I painted it in my warm studio while it rained and snow...
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Saturday, March 28, 2020

St Croix USVI Views Recent Past Weeks

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 A stormy sunset in front of our beach cottage at Chenay Bay always entertaining....changing every minute....and the view from the k...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Winter Outside, Warm Inside

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In the cold of January and February I am very grateful to be looking out at the snow and stormy skies while I stand at my kitchen window ...
Monday, January 27, 2020

SUMMER GARDENS WINTER FLOWERS 510 Warren St Gallery Hudson NY

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All of the Flowers in My Garden 30x30" oil on canvas Flower Pots in the Sunlight 36x36" oil on canvas Here are some o...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Manhattan Scene

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                 This chair sits in my friend Claudia's bedroom in her apartment in NYC . I thought it was beautiful with the lovely...
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Friday, November 29, 2019

Alford Valley Late Autumn with Cows at Sunset

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                I loved the sky and the shadows that the cows were casting over the still green grass in the late autumn light.  The l...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Sheffield Garden Potted Plants in Summer

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             A beautiful summer day in the garden at Ricky and Elizabeth's...Such wonderful plants and containers  sitting in the ...
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Thursday, September 26, 2019

September on Block Island 2019

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        Walking north from Mansion Beach on Block Island, one comes upon this scene....I had noticed it in the summer and returned t...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Blue Chair with Still Life and Paintings

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Well I just posted a repeat painting and had to remove it! So here is one that I have not posted before....I hope! I really like the p...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Recent Work at Jessie Edwards Gallery Block Island RI

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  My most recent paintings of Block Island are being exhibited this week at Jessie's gallery....This scene is the view from our back...
Monday, July 22, 2019

June on Block Island

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        June's a month that went by very quickly, but I did get out to the island. One incredible (still felt like Spring) morning s...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Springtime?

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A jar of daffodils...what could be simpler? Little trumpets of Spring! 16x20" oil on canvas
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Venice at Night in Hudson NY

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                               Both of these paintings are truly reminiscent of what I saw in Venice Italy....not romanticized but w...
Monday, April 1, 2019

April in Paris Venice and Sicily at 510 Warren St Gallery Hudson NY

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I am having an exhibit at 510 Warren St Gallery in Hudson NY ....April 5-28  Opening reception Saturday April 6 3-6 pm ALL ARE W...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Full Moonlight on the Alford Valley

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A long walk home one cold night and this is what I saw....The moonlight was amazing... 30x40"oil on canvas
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Sunday, February 10, 2019

Snowy Day From My Studio Window

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This scene never fails to inspire...But today the snow was lovely and the red mill building with the green railroad bridge just made me ha...
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Sunday, February 3, 2019

Self Portrait January 2019

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       Here I am  standing in front of a mirror in my studio, again. Well haven't done a self portrait since last year this time, New ...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

Same Chair Different Scene Just Sold

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      The painting at the top was completed in October 2017 ...The lower one was painted this August 2018 ....Both of them were do...
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