Holly Knott is a Finger Lakes, NY artist who could never call just one medium her own. In 2004, she left behind her 17-year career as an interactive systems designer and usability testing specialist in Princeton, NJ, and moved from Bucks County, PA, to equally beautiful upstate NY so that she could devote 100% of her time to her art. She works in a wide variety of media, including contemporary art quilts, photography, watercolors, acrylics, hand-painted furniture and website design.

Inspiration for her work comes from her surroundings, including her love of colonial and victorian architecture, cityscapes, rural landscapes, historical sites, cottage gardens, nature, and the enchantment of nearby riverside and lakeside towns.

Holly's contemporary art quilts and photographs have won awards, and her work is exhibited in juried art shows, quilt shows and galleries nationwide. Her work has appeared in several publications, including on the cover of the internationally distributed Quilting Arts magazine (Summer 2005), and with two articles that she wrote for Quilting Arts magazine (Summer 2005 and Spring 2007), in the 2007 Syracuse Cultural Workers Women Artist’s Datebook, in the International Quilt Festival’s 2004 Chicago show brochure, and on the cover of St. John’s University alumni brochure, Conversatio, 2003. Central New York’s very own Summer 2007 issue of Life in the Finger Lakes magazine featured her artwork in their “Off the Easel” section.

Holly has also co-authored a book with her mother Diane Knott, a watercolor painter, that has been published by C&T Publishing, called “Quilted Garden Delights.” 8 of Diane's paintings have been recreated as quilts by Holly.

She is a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates. Holly lives with her husband, Paul, and their 2 cats on a small “farmette” in rural Marcellus, NY, complete with pond and wildlife to inspire.