SANDRA KNUYT
The Artist:
Flemish-born and Malaysia-based Painter SANDRA KNUYT (1966) is a Modern Artist without any predetermination and with an expressive feminine power coming from deep inside. She’s paint-brushing the beauty of her soul in shameless, self confident colors.
Sandra wants to strike people’s emotional levels as lightning. Bold self-confident colors are bringing her valuable message of honesty and respect for natural beauty and individual identity. Color is her morphine as it generates heavy emotions of inner energy.
Today, Sandra Knuyt’s art can be found in more than 40 countries, in private collections of captains of industry and royalties, as well as corporate collections. Her work has been successfully exhibited in Asia, Europe and the United States. She had been commissioned for various private & corporate projects, including the renown Ritzenhoff Crystal Art Glass Collection which has been taken up in MOMA New York.
The Art:
‘The ultimate expression of individual identity’, this is how one could describe the female and male characters that Sandra brush strokes onto her canvasses.
“The eyes and lips are not only the most beautiful parts of a woman’s face, they are also the most important gateways for people to communicate, interact and express oneself. So it is no wonder that they are the main emphasis in my artworks”, Sandra says. “Beauty is extremely relative and individual, while values are absolute and universal. Yet both refer to our experiences and intakes of the past and present.”
“Strong individuals who believe in themselves, in who they are, in what they do, are less subject to be biased by their surroundings. They have a strong set of values, which determine their existence. Similarly, they can set their own style of beauty and they do it with class.“
“Whether they are young or old, my subjects will always be emitting their identity in a charismatic way. The old have to be young at heart. The young need to have the maturity and self-confidence of the old. That is the way I believe each individual should be able to carve out his own track in the course of a lifetime.”
