The watermedia and mixed media paintings, drawings, and prints of Costanza Knight are contemporary expressions that explore and celebrate the human form and the landscape. These images often take place in gravity free worlds and portray humankind in both states of joy and pathos.
Poetry and narratives are often her inspiration. She dramatically interprets them by creating a series of paintings that actually tell a story. In a sense, they are poetic art. As a former speech and language pathologist, she sees a direct connection between teaching communication and interpreting the human experience through her artwork.
A Floridian by birth, Costanza spent her summers in Saluda, North Carolina, where she took painting lessons from her father, an artist.
Her first realization that she wanted to formalize her interest in art came when she was attending university in Florence, Italy. She took a figure drawing class and fell in love with the process of breathing life into her drawings. She studied art there and at the University of North Carolina in Asheville.
Costanza lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina, with her husband Richard. Jordan, aged 30, a physicist, Ariel, aged 28, an artist and restaurateur, and Jesse, aged 28, a mathematician and filmmaker, are her children and her beloved human works of art. She is currently working and teaching out of her studio at The Arts Council of Henderson County.
Copyright © 2009 Costanza Knight