Ken Christensen is a classic, on-site landscape painter in the style of the French Impressionists and Fauves, painting with the vision, color, and verve of such painters as Van Gogh, Vlaminck, Marquet and Derain yet with the American perspective of Hopper and Benton.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Flint, Michigan, Ken graduated Michigan State University where he was also part of an overseas study program in London and Manchester in England. Ken returned later to travel and live in Europe, eventually settling in Paris where he attended life drawing classes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and was an official copyist at the Louvre Museum.

In the summer of 1988 he returned to Michigan, spending winters in New Mexico where he exhibited at the Linda McAdoo Gallery among others. Ken moved to the California Central Coast in 1998 where his work has been featured in numerous galleries including a prestigious exhibit at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art. His paintings have been featured on the cover of the Daniel Smith catalogue and written about in Artist's Sketchbook Magazine, as well as in local newspapers. He is the founder of a bold group of painters, The New Fauves, committed to propagating the style of the great French Fauve painters. Ken Christensen continues to live in Los Osos, California mixing plein air and studio work.