Painting
Knox's painting is inspired by both classical artists, and contemporary artists like Salvador Dalí, Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton.
He has painted numerous portraits of punk icons, including Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone, as well as Leatherface, plus paintings of landscapes and buildings. (About eighty of Knox’s paintings can be seen at the second external link shown below).
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“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)
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