BRITT KNOFF

Norwegian visual artist (ØBK, NBK)

Artistic Practice

Britt Knoff works experimentally with painting, drawing, printmaking, artist books, collage, and sculpture. She explores the inherent properties of materials and combines techniques across different media. Her works emerge from human relationships, memories, and the influence of nature on emotional life.

For Britt, the creative process is a journey into the spontaneous and intuitive. She works exploratively and process-oriented, allowing each project to develop organically over time. In her practice, she seeks a dialogue between form, material, and theme – a conversation between structure and dissolution, strength and vulnerability.

Background and Approach

Her engineering background gives her an analytical and three-dimensional perspective, as well as a deep understanding of materials. This combination of precision and sensitivity informs her artistic process.

"I must challenge myself to explore new forms of expression.
If I become fixed in one form, I lose my creativity – and it is creativity that keeps me alive."

Projects and Development

In her artistic practice, Britt works on projects over extended periods of time. She adopts an exploratory approach to expression, techniques, and the use of materials, with the creative process at the center. New directions continuously emerge; some are set aside as ideas for future works, while others are further developed as part of ongoing projects.