RED ROCK
Original oil on canvas painting by Ken Christensen, measuring 16 × 20 inches. Rich color and expressive brushwork capture the distinctive forms and natural beauty of California's coastal landscape, creating a timeless original painting for collectors of contemporary realism.
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.