Ken is a plein air artist. He is not content to copy the object but endeavours to realize the sensation or essence of each painting location.
“I articulate this emotion through the liberating use of colour. This creates a presence and sense of energy in each painting that is very much a personal response to what I see and feel.”
Ken approaches the landscape with a contemporary boldness and freshness. Viewed up close, his paintings are brilliantly abstract – a myriad of brushstrokes and edges of thick paint – but stand back a few paces and they resolve into a landscape of texture, mood, time and place.
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
1995, 1999, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002 Hillsmith Gallery Adelaide SA
1996, 1998, 2006 Eastgate Holst, Melbourne
2001, 2004 McKenzie Gallery Perth WA
1997-2002 Group exhibitions-Gallery 71, New York
2001-2003 W.H.Patterson Gallery, London
2003-2005 Jonathan Grant Galleries, Auckland NZ
2004 Tyron Gallery St.James, London
2005 Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas.
2005 Retrospective Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW
2007 Hill Smith Fine Art Adelaide, Jonathon Grant Galleries Auckland,
2008 Tryon Gallery London
2009 Gosford Regional Gallery, “Vantage POints” A Survey Show., Christopher Day Gallery Paddington, Linton & Kay Galleries Perth
2010 Eastgate & Holst Hawthorn, Hill Smith Gallery Adelaide,
2011 Wentworth Galleries Sydney, Bungendore Woodworks Gallery NSW, Linton & Kay Galleries Perth
2012 Tryon Galleries London
2013 Hamilton Art Gallery, “Western District Painting”, Eastgate & Holst Hawthorn
2014 Palm Beach Surf Club, Jonathan Grant Galleries Auckland
2015 Bungendore Woodworks Gallery NSW
2016 Christopher Day Gallery Paddington, Wentworth Gallery Sydney
AWARDS (SELECTED)
1993 AME Bale – Grand Winner
1994 Windsor and Newton Australian Award
1995, 1998, 1999 AME Bale – Best oil painting
2000, 2003 Camberwell Rotary Art Show
2002 Sydney University-Members Choice Award
REPRESENTED
Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery and Historical Museum
Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum, Hamilton Art Gallery
Canberra Museum & Gallery, Wyong Council, Penrith Municipal Council
Holroyd Council, Archbishop of New York, Sultan of Brunei, DDB Singapore
Tennis Federation of Japan, Lemar Alexander, U.S Presidential Candidate
Parliament House, Bundanon Trust, Multileaf, Commonwealth Bank
Johnson & Johnson, Rosemount Estate, ANZ Bank Head Office, Hong Kong Bank
Westpac Bank Collection, Shell Oil, Parker Pens, BHP, Rio Tinto, AMP Society
The Union Club, Sydney, I.B.M, Schwarzkopf, Kawasaki, Straits Resources
Daiwa, Tattersalls Club, Brisbane, A.N.A Hotel, Sydney
Royal Australian Navy’s Judge Advocate General Collection
Burton Taylor Communications, Rose Bay Sacred Heart Convent School
Private and corporate collections in Australia, England, Italy, USA, Mexico, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, Germany, France, South Africa, New Zealand and Singapore
