There is a longing to take the viewer with him on his colourful, ethereal journey
It rains a wee bit in Scotland! As a young boy, Ken had vivid memories of sitting at his bedroom window, listening to Ravel’s Bolero playing on his older brother’s wind-up gramophone whilst through the raindrops on the glass he tried to find faces in the clouds. To this day, gestalt and neurographic drawing play a invaluable and essential part in his approach to painting. He has always loved to paint and, like most folks, find it cathartic. His two dimensional canvas, regardless of dimensions, becomes a portal to another world that photography cannot capture. There is a longing to take the viewer with him on his colourful, ethereal journey. Putting paint to canvas is only the shorthand for magical people or places seen or imagined. On occasions a landscape will happen so quickly it’s almost as if it was on the canvas before he started . . . He is always grateful for that. In his paintings you will often find little patches of places in his memory. The finished product is only a success for Ken if it lifts a room and adds a little pleasure to the life of the viewer.