I’m an artist who could never call just one medium my own.

In 2004, I left behind the corporate world of a 17-year career as an interactive systems designer and usability testing specialist in Princeton, NJ, to focus on my own artwork and small business fulltime.

We moved from beautiful Bucks County, PA, to equally beautiful upstate NY in the eastern Finger Lakes region, where I began my Holly Knott LLC website/graphic design business, and where I also became co-owner and founding member of 2 new artisan’s galleries, where I sold my own fine art (art quilts and associated greeting cards and fiber art products such as handbags, tote bags, scarves and more).

I began designing sewing patterns that I sold via various online shops, including Etsy. I also continued exhibiting my art quilts across the country for a few years. I’m also a published author – see “Quilted Garden Delights” (C&T Publishing – February, 2008) that I co-authored with my mother, the artist Diane Knott.

My contemporary art quilts, which I began creating around 2000, and my photographs have won awards, and my work has been exhibited in juried art shows, quilt shows and galleries nationwide. My fabric art has appeared in several publications, including Quilting Arts magazine and several quilting books.

I spend my free time working in a wide variety of media, including contemporary art quilts (landscape and pictorial quilts are my favorites), punch needle, photography, watercolors, pastel paintings, hand-painted furniture, gardening, and various home remodeling projects.

I live with my husband, Paul, and our cats, in a lovely restored 1928 cape cod on a rocky and wooded hillside overlooking a creek, surrounded by nature in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.

Inspiration for my work comes from my surroundings, including my love of local colonial and Victorian architecture, cityscapes, rural landscapes, historical sites, cottage gardens, nature, and the enchantment of nearby riverside and lakeside towns.

Visit my website for more about me!
https://hollyknott.com