Tim Knoll

After finishing my education, I taught junior high school Art for several years. In 1973 I resigned from teaching to pursue a career in decorative painting and interior design. I concentrated on decorative painting and have been self-employed working for designers ever since. I have always painted for myself and began to exhibit in Pittsburgh in 1980 and was represented by the Richard Jacobson Gallery. Through the gallery and designers I sold works and completed commissions for various collectors and have several paintings in the permanent collection of USX, formerly U.S. Steel. Throughout the eighties I completed commissions in various cities up and down the east coast for clients and in 1987 relocated to Boston continuing that career. My concentration in school was landscape, figure and portrait work but turned to abstraction and representational work in the eighties and nineties along with some form or other of realism.

A move to Atlanta in the spring of 1999 renewed my interest in landscape painting. Springtime in the south is an explosion of color and I was truly inspired.

Even though there appears to be a strong bent towards the Impressionist School in my work, it wasn't intentional...more like an artistic accident. The painters I have always admired are of the American School of the late 19th and first half of the 20th Centuries, primarily John Singer Sargent and Edward Hopper.

It is difficult for me to philosophize, much less intellectualize about my work. I simply paint the things that move me and it always involves a lighting situation.

Personally, I see my work as a visual biography of my life, i.e., the persons, places, and things that I have related to.

My decorative art career gave me the opportunity to do large scale projects which I love but studio painting is my preference. I am truly excited with the work I am doing and I have been out this fall in Georgia, Pennsylvania and West Virginia finding new material. My interests are varied and I never know what will inspire me next. But, in the end I always return to the landscape.

For more information about the work shown here, contact me directly at:

Tim Knoll
710 Vinings Parkway
Smyrna, GA 30080
(770) 438-7845

http://www.emergingartistgalleries.com/knoll