Threadgood by Kent Knowles - 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle

Kent Knowles is an American figurative painter. The characters that populate his work are often women in perilous situations, occupying lush terrain - and his most recent interests explore self-preservation and isolation. In starting any painting, he's never quite sure of the outcome. "I try not to impose too much order on a painting," he said. "That's why I start without any real agenda. I don't do any preliminary work for the paintings, I just start drawing on the canvas with paint." Many of the images begin as one thing and end as another – overlapping lines and abandoned forms giving way to new bodies. He compared the process to looking at the clouds. Eventually, a figure appears."Threadgood" (oil on canvas, 60" x 48", 2018) is one of the many works that Knowles has breathed life into. "I know a figure, most likely female, is going to emerge out of these overlapping lines when the painting starts," Knowles continued, "and it's just a matter of time before it does." Like most of his