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Welcome!

I'm glad you stopped. I love to paint and share my blessings with you. I paint both plein air and in the studio. My wife and
I love to travel and share our adventures with others through my paintings. I hope you enjoy what you see and
experience.

Joel uses lively color with oil paint in an impressionistic style to capture a feeling of time and place as he
sees it. He is a painter in motion, restless to capture nature in all its moods and seasons. He is a devote
plein air painter who feels that the essence of the place may only be captured by the artist experiencing it
directly. He may be found traveling in his camper with easel and paints deployed in front of mountains,
rivers, and landscapes of all types, and in cities painting sidewalk cafes and cityscapes both by daylight and
streetlight.
Joel says of plein air painting, “It’s such an honest approach to see the light as it hits the scene. The wind in
your face, flies in your paint and two hours to create a painting; one must paint fast and loose, go in with
your feelings, but using your brain and experience to balance colors, to vibrate and sing, Hallelujah.”

Workshop at the studio in Bugg Hollow,
Gallatin, Tennessee.

Joel's Studio

Joel Knapp