▷ Rocky Times by Craig Scott Knight, 2025 | Marker Paintings Must Have

This is a powerful, vertical example of Craig Scott Knight’s developed fragmented post-modern abstraction style. The work is executed in mixed media—acrylic paint, spray paint, and marker on canvas.

Knight’s technique creates a profound visual tension across the surface: the diffuse, painterly quality of the spray paint suggests chaos and ephemeral memory , while the sharp lines of the marker impose a graphic structure and the intellectual attempt at control. This collision of ‘highbrow’ and ‘lowbrow’ media visually reflects the psychological process of seeking order.

The evocative title reflects both personal history and shared cultural instability. By using abstraction to process collective history, the canvas becomes “remnants and evidence” of the ongoing human effort to construct the ‘self’. This is a pivotal acquisition for collectors of conceptually rigorous contemporary British abstraction.