Saturday, October 22, 2016

This Year's Crop Of New Potatoes

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Every year I plant some seed potatoes, given to me by a friend, and this is what I get! My humble crop which I thought was worthy of paint...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Berkshire Hills and Day Lilies with Black Eyed Susan's

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It was 95 degrees out side on the porch when I painted this study...nice and warm...I was in  Alford at Barbara's house looking ou...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

On The Shores Of Richmond Pond

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Early Summer and the Skunk Cabbage is coming up...the Dandelions have already gone to seed and the ferns are pushing  through th...
Monday, August 29, 2016

A Wall of Kate....48 Years of My Life

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A self portrait is an interesting thing...a painting that asks...who am I? where am I? and How am I? Each painting gives the answer in...
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Summer Bouquet With Moth

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Can you find the moth? It flew into my studio and I could not resist painting  as it enjoyed this Queen Ann's Lace blossom...Why do I ...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Front St Gallery The Self Portraits and Recent Work by Kate Knapp

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New show now hanging at Front St Gallery July3- Sept 6 ...48 years of self portraits (not all of them, only the best) from the age of ...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Block Island Spring Paintings

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Opening up the little house and looking out at the Island world...a long winter is over and the paints are trying to capture the magic of ...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Springtime Comes To The Alford Valley

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The fields glowed brightly with the Dandelions blooming...Spring leaves had yet to creep up the distant hills...when the blossoms faded an...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

Interiors The Bath and The Hall View

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More interior scenes that I live with every day...I love my house and I am very happy to live here and be able to paint what I see in ...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

St Croix USVI Sea Shells

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Every day that I walk down the beach in St Croix  I pick up shells that catch my eye and I fall in love with them...and so my hous...
Monday, March 28, 2016

After Kitagawa Utamaro

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Here is a recent interpretation in oil on canvas of the late 1700's wood block print of Utamaro's. this was from the Ukiyo-e perio...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

St.Croix Seascapes Today

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Every day a new scene and a different inspiration...I revisit the same places to swim and fall in love all over again....watercolor an...
Friday, January 22, 2016

The View From My Sofa

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It just so happens that I was very sick with a cold for a week at which time I lay on the sofa and watched the sky change colors outsi...
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Thursday, January 7, 2016

New Year's Eve Self Portrait

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I am looking a little pale...the light was very cold that morning...I really did look a bit grim when I saw  myself in the mirror or rathe...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Play It Again Sam

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Once more I am blessed by having Sam Rosen play at the studio...He comes to practice and I get to paint...while listening to his amazing t...
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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Apple Studies

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Three apples three studies...on the same cloth...we grew these apples in our orchard...there were several thousand out there this ...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Last Flowers Before the Frost in Stockbridge Ma.

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This Autumn was glorious and at the Botanical Garden in Stockbridge Ma it was magical to me...I love these Anemones that bloom so late in ...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Stormy Skies at Sunset

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This cornfield is across the road from our house...The corn has been chopped and only the stalks remain defining the rows ...the golden ro...
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

How Green Was My Alford Valley?

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A late Autumn scene in our valley looking south toward Mt Washington in the distance...A few cows grazing as the evening sun goes down... ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Block Island and the Berkshires

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From the beach at sunset on the Island...sand dunes in shadow and wild beach roses surrounding Rosalie's wonderful old house and T...
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