Ken Kennell - Pointillism Painter - 12" x 12" (image 9" x 9"), Oil on Canvas

Ken Kennell has lived in New York since June 2012 after 33 years in Hawaii and Alaska, where he built a log home and raised three daughters. Ken has been creating paintings since 1970, mostly employing an Impressionist technique known as “Pointillism.” The French Neo-Impressionists Georges Seurat and Paul Signac were the first artists to popularize the demanding style of Pointillism, or as they preferred to call it – Divisionism. This kind of painting depends upon the close juxtaposition of tiny points of intense pure-tone colors to produce a whole that is made up of its integral vibratory parts. It is also, as you can imagine, one of the most time-consuming methods of painting known. But unlike Signac’s and Seurat’s work, Ken Kennell attempts to create works that are alive with movement rather than static, paintings that seem to change with one’s “angle of regard.” While still being faithful to Pointillism’s style based on the law of optics and simultaneous color contrasts, there is a marked lack of Divisionist rigidity in Ken Kennell’s paintings, they move, and flow, and glow! In addition to being a painter, Ken is an accomplished woodcarver, furniture builder, musician, and he also teaches Art and Guitar to children and adults.