MY FRONT YARD
Original oil on canvas painting by Ken Christensen, measuring 36 × 48 inches. Inspired by the familiar beauty of everyday surroundings, this contemporary landscape captures warmth, atmosphere, and the changing light that defines California living.
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. 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.