The archive
All artwork
Every drawing and collage in the Gerald Allen Knowles archive, each with its own story, medium and place. All are available as made-to-order fine art prints, shipped worldwide.
Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes
Ink and wash on paper · Saintes, France
A Romanesque abbey in south-west France, drawn from the square in a single morning. The tiered bell tower is set out with the construction lines still showing, while diluted ink carries the shadow down the west front.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Mixed-media collage · Bilbao, Spain
Gehry's titanium curves rendered in torn metallic paper and ink, so the surface of the print behaves the way the building behaves in Basque light — reflective one moment, matte the next.
Church of San Juan Bautista de Baños
Collage and ink · Baños de Cerrato, Spain
One of the oldest churches on the Iberian peninsula, rebuilt in paper. Torn ochre fragments stand in for the Castilian plain while the horseshoe arch is left as clean drawing.
Volcanic Landscape of Fuerteventura
Ink and wash on paper · Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
A whitewashed chapel dug into a volcanic slope above the Atlantic. Lava blacks and ochres against lime white — a landscape print with real weight rather than prettiness.
The Blue Boat That Dreams of Sea
Ink and wash on paper · Atlantic coast
A working boat pulled up and left among the plants for a season, drawn where the harbour meets the town. Calm, blue-led coastal wall art with an architect's sense of line.
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, Saintes
Ink and watercolour on paper · Saintes, France
The great flamboyant tower of Saint-Pierre seen from the street below, drawn in warm ochre wash with two figures left in to give the stonework its true scale.
Arch of Wind & Time
Pen and ink on paper · Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
A wind-cut arch on the Fuerteventura coast, drawn entirely in pen. Thousands of short strokes build the eroded basalt, with the sea left as bare paper through the opening.
Erosion Gate
Pen and ink on paper · Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
A hollowed volcanic gateway on the north coast, drawn looking through it rather than at it — the rock as doorway, with the shoreline running out beyond.
Mystical Fuerteventura — Dream Nights
Pen and ink on paper · Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
Canary palms against a worked black sky. The night is drawn rather than printed — layer on layer of ink until the fronds come forward as pale silhouettes.
Palm Trees Symphony
Ink and watercolour on paper · Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
A stand of palms above the sand, drawn in soft rose and blue-grey. The same trees as the night drawing, seen in flat midday light.
Magical Landscape
Ink and watercolour on paper · Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
Three palms against a terraced hillside wall, high above the sea. A drawing about dry stone, patience, and the few things that grow on a volcanic island.
Mystical Chapel in a Mountainous Landscape
Ink and watercolour on paper · Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
A small white ermita almost lost among folded hills, drawn in soft ochre, green and rose. The building is the smallest thing in the picture and the reason for it.
Symphony of Waves
Ink and watercolour on paper · Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
Turquoise water running in around black volcanic rock, with the wet sand holding the reflection. The most colour-led piece in the coastal work.
