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 is typically observational and painted directly from life. He seeks to paint both feeling and space into and around solid objects, people, and landscapes. Lately, he focuses on color relationships and the sensations that arise from their interplay, treating light and color as the best way to describe forms.