Painting what remains.

Fragments of landscape, memory and experience — transformed through colour, gesture and abstraction.

Gallery wall with abstract colorful paintings; contemporary artist Daniela Knobel  adjusting a painting, viewing and arranging artworks.

I’m drawn to what stays with us — a colour, a movement, a place, a fragment of something seen or experienced.

Abstract painting with blue, green, red, and beige brushstrokes and scribbles.

In the studio, these impressions are layered, interrupted and reworked until the painting begins to find a life of its own.

Somewhere between recognition and abstraction, a new landscape starts to emerge.

A landscape painting with soft pastel colors, including greens, blues, and earth tones, depicting a grassy area with trees and distant hills under a cloudy sky.
Abstract impressionist painting of a landscape with trees, water, and sky, using bright colors like green, blue, yellow, and purple.

From experience to painting

Places are rarely painted as I saw them.

What remains are fragments — colour, rhythm, atmosphere and movement — that resurface later in the studio.

Two abstract landscape paintings, one featuring a coastal scene with rocky cliffs and blue water, the other depicting a rugged mountain terrain with flowing river and hills.
Two abstract landscape paintings with bold brushstrokes and a mix of blue, brown, beige, and green colors.

Paintings often develop side by side — each work influencing the next through colour, material and gesture.

A woman with shoulder-length dark hair and glasses, wearing a light gray shirt, points at a colorful abstract painting on a gallery wall. The wall features several other abstract paintings in shades of blue, green, orange, and black.
A modern interior with a large abstract painting by Daniela Knobel featuring blue, beige, and black brushstrokes hanging on a white wall.