Steve Knox

Statement of the Artist:

Home is important!  My home is Wyoming!  Wyoming is where I live, explore, love, and draw inspiration.  I create my art based on experiences in life.  My work reflects my time outdoors, hunting, fishing, hiking, camping and seeing.  I use those images collected in the Wyoming outdoors to piece visions together in my work.

 I came out of art school with the thought that I would be a print-maker.  I still practice some printmaking and enjoy it very much.  Over the last 5 years my art has taken a turn and become much more experiential.  The paintings I make are an attempt at playing and manipulating paint and canvas to create an emotional, rendering of the wild things and creatures I see in the 307.  I find myself intentionally using thick, painterly brush strokes to create texture and life on my canvases.  This is a long way separated from my printmaking beginnings.  Although my paintings have a loose feeling, my techniques still stem from those detailed thoughts that one would find in a print-maker’s mind. 

I work in series.  These series are important to me mentally and I think they are important to my audience.  A painting can be successful on its own but when there is a series of related works it can truly tell a story and show the commitment from the artist.  I feel that when I work in a series, I can explore and complete an idea to its full extent.