Laura Knight: Beauty in Simple Things

"Even before I could speak or walk, I drew."

Self-Portrait, c. 1921 (Private Collection)

The Fishing Fleet, Oil on Canvas, c. 1900 (Bolton Museum & Art Gallery)

Dressing the Children, Oil on Canvas, c. 1906 (Ferens Art Gallery)

The Elder Sister, Oil on Canvas, c. 1907 (Touchstones Rochdale)

One of the greatest moments of Mother's life came when she found that I, a mere baby, was never so content as with pencil and paper; even before I could speak or walk, I drew. There was no question of my purpose in life.

A Dark Pool, Oil on Canvas, c. 1908-1918 (Laing Art Gallery)

Self Portrait aka The Model, Oil on Canvas, 1913 (National Portrait Gallery, London)

‘The Fairgrounds, Penzance’, Oil on Canvas, c.1916 (Private Collection)

Motherhood, Oil on Canvas, c. 1922 (Nottingham Castle)

‘Autumn Sunlight, Sennen Cove, Cornwall’, Oil on Canvas, 1922 (Birmingham Museums Trust)

Two Girls by a Jetty, Oil on Canvas, 1922 (Newnham College, University of Cambridge)

Ethel Bartlett, Oil on Canvas, exhibited 1926 (Atkinson Art Gallery Collection)

‘The Grand Parade; Charivari’, Oil on Canvas, 1928 (Newport Museum & Art Gallery)

The Ballet Girl and the Dressmaker, Oil On Canvas, 1930 (Private Collection)

George Bernard Shaw, Oil on Canvas, 1932 (Hereford Museum & Art Gallery)

‘Spring in St John's Wood, London’, Oil on Canvas, 1933 (Walker Art Gallery)

There was beauty in very simple things if one had eyes to see it.

A Theatre Dressing Room, Oil on Canvas, c. 1935 (Glasgow Museums Resource Centre)

Fine Feathers, Oil on Canvas, 1939 (Nottingham Castle)

Windermere and the Langdale Pikes, Oil on Canvas, 1940s (Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum)

‘Corporal J. M. Robins, Women's Auxiliary Air Force’, Oil on Canvas, 1941 (Imperial War Museums)

Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring, Oil on Canvas, 1943 (Imperial War Museums)

The Nuremberg Trial, Oil on Canvas, 1946 (Imperial War Museums)

A Dressing Room at Drury Lane, Oil on Canvas, c. 1952 (Atkinson Art Gallery Collection

Joan Rhodes, Oil on Canvas, 1955 (Royal Academy of Arts)

The Pool No. 2, Oil on Canvas, c. 1959 (Royal Academy of Arts)

The Old Garden (A Snow Scene), Oil on Canvas, 1965 (Private Collection)

Unfinished Portrait of Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Oil on Canvas, 1970 (Royal Academy of Arts)

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