Elizabeth Knight
Rituals
2024 embroidery thread and silk on cotton 9" x 11" x 1" (11 1/4" x 12 5/8" framed) Available
Walking Pocket
2021 silk on aida cloth and ribbon 10" x 11 ½" Available
Heart Like a River
2020 silk on linen 2 ½" x 5 ½" Sold
Ingrid's Owl
2019 silk embroidery 7" x 5 1/4", 11 3/8" x 9 1/2" (framed) Sold
Calf (PDX Small Bronze Series)
2018 bronze 2 3/4" x 6 3/4" x 3 1/2" Available
Storm
2018 graphite, thread and silk organza 7 5/8" x 5" Sold
America's Dog
2016 silk on velvet 6 1/2" x 6 1/2" Available
Can't Help It
2016 silk on linen 9 1/2" x 10 1/2" x 1" Sold
Flora
2016 silk on linen 9" x 9" x 1" Available
From Above #1
2016 painted cotton 9" x 9" Sold
From Above #2
2016 painted cotton 9" x 9" Sold
From Above #3
2016 painted cotton 9" x 9" Available
I Got You, Edith
2016 silk on silk 12" x 14" x 1" Available
This Body I Wear
2016 silk and cotton thread on cotton cloth 12" x 8" x 1" Sold
Where Now?
2016 silk paint, graphite, silk on linen 14" x 9" Sold
Peony
2013 silk thread on cotton 9" x 7" Available
Who?
2013 pencil and watercolor pencil Available
Autumn Wolf
2012 felted wool 4" x 8" Sold
Badger I
2012 felt and sugru 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" (8 1/2" x 8 1/2" framed) Available
Badger II
2012 silk on linen 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" Available
Herdwick
2012 silk on wool 6" x 6" Sold
Irish Terrier
2012 felted wool 4" x 7" x 3" Sold
Sheepherding 101
2012 silk on cotton 15 1/2" x 18 1/2" Sold
Stall Work
2012 felted wool and mixed media 5" x 15" x 10" Sold
Swaledale Moon
2012 silk on wool 16" x 11" Sold
The Farm
2012 silk on linen 11 1/2" x 17" Sold
The Letter
2012 mixed media 17" x 9" Sold
The Moor
2012 silk on linen 1 1/2" x 5" Sold
Bounce
2010 pencil and watercolor pencil Available
A Scottish Proverb
2009 mixed media 2 1/2" x 11" x 1" On Hold
Burmese
2008 silk floss, linen, paper, ink, graphite, wood box 6" x 4 1/2" x 2" Available
Dear Sister
2008 mixed media 6" x 4 1/2" x 2" Sold
Donkey Retired
2008 linen, poly fill, ink found watercolor, moss, wood box 12 1/2" x 6 1/4" x 3 1/4" Sold
Heir Apparent
2008 silk on linen, ink, rice paper, glass, wood box 9 3/4" x 13" x 2" Available
Korat
2008 silk floss, linen, paper, ink, graphite, wood box 6" x 4 1/2" x 2" Available
Music Box
2008 silk, linen, paper, bells, antique tea tin 4" x 4" x 1 1/2" Sold
Nine Spot
2008 silk floss, linen, paper, ink, graphite, wood box 6" x 4 1/2" x 2" Sold
Siamese
2008 mixed media 6" x 4 1/2" x 2" Available
Spinning Jenny
2008 felt, polyfill, linen, ink, wheel, found graphic 8" x 6" x 7" Sold
Tartuffe
2008 felt, wire, silver, on a cone of cotton string 6" x 4 1/2" x 2" Sold
A Good Dog (front)
2006 felt, paper, cotton stiching 4 1/4" x 3 1/4" x 3/4" Sold
A Good Dog (inside)
2006 felt, paper, cotton stiching 4 1/4" x 3 1/4" x 3/4" Sold
Snowy Plover
2006 needle-felted Oregon wool, linen 5" x 6" Sold
the UR-DOG
2006 needle-felted wool 6 1/2" x 6 3/4" x 3 1/2" Sold
Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
2005 silk and cotton on linen 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" Sold
Ch. John Thomas
2004 silk, cotton on linen 5 1/2 " X 4" Sold
Dutch Rabbit
2004 needle-felted wool 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" Sold
Fawn
2004 stuffed muslin, ink 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" Available
Magpie (pica pica)
2004 silk on tea-dyed linen 9 1/2" x 7" Sold
Opus
2004 silk, cotton on linen 3" x 4" Available
Self-portrait
2004 silk, cotton on linen 4" x 5" Sold
Wolfhound
2004 needle-felted wool 6" x 4" Sold
"Argus" After Kimse
2002 silk on tea-dyed linen 9" x 7" Sold
Cupids After Watteau
2002 silk on tea-dyed linen 9 1/2" x 12" Sold
Antique Rabbit
2000 mixed media 9" x 11 1/2" Sold
Tayside's Georgie
2000 silk on linen with guache 5 5/8" x 5 5/8" Sold
Exhibitions
- Summer Ritual - July 3, 2024
- PDX Visits Lostine | July 16 - 26, 2021 - July 26, 2021
- Walking - July 1, 2021
- River - July 2, 2020
- IT'S SUMMER ! - July 2, 2019
- Along the Edge - July 3, 2018
- Seattle Art Fair 2017 - August 3, 2017
- PDX -> PDT - July 7, 2017
- The House Inside/Desert Dreamin’ - January 3, 2017
- Let's Get Lost - June 30, 2015
- I Never Complained About the Past: New Work / New Year - December 31, 2013
- Pastoral - April 3, 2012
- Animal History Boxes - August 5, 2008
- Group Show - May 31, 2005
- Toys and Totems - December 7, 2004
- Influenced - June 4, 2002
- Illuminations - April 9, 2002
Statement
Before Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, we had no knowledge of our separateness from ourselves, from one another and from nature. Each of us suffers that loss; we wake each morning as refugees.
Once people traveled underground into the dark caves of Lascaux to draw horses on the wall. It was the need to reconnect that drove them down into the dark with their weak torches.
As children we have an innate understanding and desire to get close to the primal power (and identification with the abject powerlessness) of the animal. The bear is made benevolent in its childlikeness and becomes the attaché to the private world of the child. The young heroine of National Velvet keeps a shoe box under her bed filled with paper cutouts of horses; when she takes them out to play with them the air becomes charged with ritual and desire. Toys become totems.
The dog entered my circle of fire very early on, offering to become my closest friend, my teacher, and still…no matter how many mindful hours we spend together there remains between us a space that no language can cross.
Art, for me, remains a way to meet the animal, perhaps within myself, perhaps to mourn what’s lost.
- Elizabeth Knight
