Who is Sera Knight?

Sera Knight has been drawing and painting since childhood. She paints mainly in watercolour, acrylic and mixed media. Tackling human figure and perspective has always been her favourite subjects but she also enjoys different subjects where drawing creates a challenge.

Regardless of the subject, to be able to use the light cleverly, create a mystical atmosphere together with technical and emotional strength is her aim. Sera also paints on glass objects to the effect of stained glass and exhibits these separately.

Her paintings of dancers have been made into a fundraising calendar for 2009 in USA. In addition, some of her paintings of dancers have been used by design firms in USA.

As a result she was approached by a gallery in Beverly Hills to take part in an International competition. Sera is also popular among GSCE and A level students and has been chosen as the artist to be studied for their course work many times.Sera teaches adult education classes and tutors private groups and holds workshops and gives demo's in watercolour, acrylic, mixed media and drawing mediums.

Sera Knight looks at ballroom dancers and presents them 
in a new way by using lots of colour making it stand out creating a bold, exciting piece with lots going on. She uses lots of powerful colours which magnifies the liveliness of ballroom dancing and represents a mixture of moods when dancing. The thing I find most fascinating about her work is that her paintings are abstract and don’t fit the real life image identically, it is her own interpretation. It is modern compared to the more traditional ball painting approaches that create their work in fine detail almost identical to the scene.



This is my response to Sera Knight's work as I tried to experiment working in her style.