John Loris Knapp is an oil painter living in Brooklyn, New York. John is a self-taught artist inspired foremost by the European and American painters of the 19th and 20th centuries.

John’s work mixes observational painting with the reactionary color applications of an abstract artist. He seeks to paint both feeling and space into and around solid objects, people, and landscapes. In this way his work combines quiet expressions of reality with intense expressions of thought.