Author: Ken Smith

Found Places 3, 2022, monotype, 6″ x 6″.

 This small monotype on paper on panel is one of a series, Found Places 1 thru 7. What fun they are to make – the process and the wandering of the imagination.

 Spring Bough 1, 2022, Pigment Ink on Paper, 26×20 and 19-1/2×15,
 Limited Edition of 15 each size.

Personal Landscape, 2022, Pigment Ink on Paper, 26×20 and 19-1/2×15, Limited Edition of 15 each size.

Nightflowers, 2022, Pigment Ink on Paper, 26×20 and 19-1/2×15

More roses, but from a different time in the imagination. Another feeling, not only about flowers. The sentient mood after the sun goes down.

I have looked at this image in both color and black & white. It is a dilemma, for both are relevant. But they are unique too, for they stand separate in their two versions. I may keep them both, for I respond to both of them, as tho they were two different people, coming from a different background and perspective. It is more than about color or not. It is what the color one feels like. What the b&w one feels like.

There are theories about that. Maybe the b&w expresses its form better, without the color as a distraction. Maybe it is more moody and spare. Color has its attributes too…and it feels like warmth and sweetness in its tones. Its form is accentuated by the change of color. One feels that also. They are both yet to be titled, but for now Rose Bud.

Nature Being, 2021, Pigment Ink on Paper, 15×15″ framed 28×22″

An upcoming show at Confluence Gallery in Twisp, WA –  Filthy Little Pictures. The show seeks to open a discussion about the human body & human sexuality,  the social views and its repression. In my opinion, the repression of feeling and our true nature. It will be an interesting show, opening January 12 thru March 5, 2022.  I will have four pieces in the show, including Nature Being.

Welcome to my art blog. It has been some time in coming, but I hope to urge some interest to this page, with art, shows, and a few thoughts. Let’s see what happens.

    Red Branch, 2021. Image sizes: 26×20″, 19-1/2×15″. Limited edition of 15 each size.