Graham Knuttel was born in Dublin in 1954 of German and English parentage. He considers himself to be Irish or more specifically a 'Dubliner'.
During his school days Knuttel's interest in formal education waned and absorption in drawing and painting grew. At 18 years of age he started Art School and his interest in figurative painting aspired. He was now determined to develop his skills as a figurative painter. He found himself to be an intuitive painter, with little patience with the intellectual processes and conclusions that were so much a part of abstract and conceptual art. For Knuttel, to paint what one saw or felt or imagined around one's self should be a simple affair, painted from the gut. He likes to paint the human predicament...
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Graham Knuttel was born in Dublin in 1954 of German and English parentage. He considers himself to be Irish or more specifically a 'Dubliner'.
During his school days Knuttel's interest in formal education waned and absorption in drawing and painting grew. At 18 years of age he started Art School and his interest in figurative painting aspired. He was now determined to develop his skills as a figurative painter. He found himself to be an intuitive painter, with little patience with the intellectual processes and conclusions that were so much a part of abstract and conceptual art. For Knuttel, to paint what one saw or felt or imagined around one's self should be a simple affair, painted from the gut. He likes to paint the human predicament as he sees it. His figures appear in an urban landscape of which he is a part. He tries to use colour and form to express the emotion of his figures.
During Knuttel's years as an art student the methods and styles of the American abstract expressionists made their presence felt. He found it pragmatic therefore to stop painting temporarily and adjourn to the sculpture department for his final year. Here, his tutor emphasised the qualities of the older painters (Cézanne, Goya, Rembrandt etc.) and conveyed to him the way that light reveals form and how paint can break the light into colours.
Knuttel developed a love for sculpture at this time and for some years after gaining his diploma he worked hard in carving and construction. However, through drawing and using colour in his sculpture, he gradually found himself returning to painting.
Knuttel has now emerged as a painter with an international reputation with work in many collections worldwide. He is a prolific worker, spending up to fifteen hours a day working.
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