New Work: Red Movements, oil on canvas, 36 x 60 inches

Red Movements

Oil on canvas, 36 x 60 inches
Exhibiting: Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
$8500 framed   To purchase

 
About this artwork:
This composition has always drawn me in—the feeling of standing in the shaded part of a forest, looking outward toward a place flooded with light. It presents an ideal stage for exploring contrast, depth, and energy.
 
In this work, I began immediately with bold colors and contrasts that set the theme for this oil.The focus here is nature at its most dynamic: a forest alive where shapes, depth and complexity are combined with a large variety of saturated colors, all contributing power to the piece.
 
At one point, the painting became almost unruly, like a three-ring circus of competing forces—all these vivid variables demanding attention. That’s when I listen to the canvas, open to instructions for what is needed next.
 
What followed was more color, intensity and depth, until the moment came to push the yellow trees glowing at the center even more.
 
Then there was a calm, a moment when everything stopped. It felt as though the forest itself held its breath—waiting for some signal that all was in balance. Then every mark, every part combined as one full chord of color and form.
 
The painting was finished.

New Works: Exhibiting in the National Western Stock Show, 2025-26

Here are four of my new oils on canvas that were juried into the National Western Stock Show. I am a part of the Young Guns exhibiting group and you can purchase these works online through the Coors Western Art exhibit site here

These works will be sold only at the listed price. There is no bidding by lottery, silent auction, or otherwise, and there is no presale "Buy it Now" option.

Your purchase supports the National Western Scholarship Trust, helping fund the future of agricultural and rural youth across Colorado and Wyoming.
Thank you!

Ken

New Work: All in the Glow, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

All in the Glow, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

Exhibiting: Saks Galleries, Denver

$9250 framed

To purchase

This oil is a larger, more expansive reimagining of the earlier painting Soft Evening Colors,keeping the same basic composition while shifting the mood and intensity. In this version,the sun drops lower and burns brighter and that small change sends a warm radiance acrossthe entire landscape.

Every area of the surface was reconsidered and strengthened, with more presence, nuance, and more saturated color. The result is a luminous field of light, a glowing object in the room.

Once finished, I was surprised to see this painting take over, outshining some of the other vividworks in the studio. It seemed eager to get out into the world.

New Work: Soft Evening Colors, oil on panel, 16 x 16 inches

$2150 framed
Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art,
Santa Fe, NM


About this oil:

This was a throughly enjoyable painting to make. It had a mind of its own and I didn’t know what was going to happen from one moment to the next.
 
It began with that grouping of blue trees in the back and two trees standing in the front. To complete the composition, strips of field and sky.
 
Then I was immediately stuck... it just wasn't coming together so  I retired it to back in the studio for um…. 2 years.
 
Back to the now, it was the end of my painting session yesterdaywhen I saw that neglected oil setting in a corner like a lonely pet. I picked it up and decided to do something unusual just to get  something going.
 
Two trees became four and to purposely keep things off-balance and interesting, I decided to paint in their shapes using soft blues and purples. The rest of the oil wasn’t developed at this point and those pale trees created a puzzle that was not going to be solved that day so I let it go again.
 
The following day, that little painting was calling out, insisting actually, for solutions. It is like having a conversation and immediately, ideas began to flow, but only one at a time.
 
First, it was the greens lightly laid in at the top on the blue line of trees. Then, to brighten and complicate the grasses in the foreground.
 
Oh, now light is coming in, so in response, greens and reds were added to the four trees. Then, to put in that glowing yellow-orange just above the dark tree line. In turn, that required brightening and adjusting the sky using three colors to create a glowing background. With that, the painting finally came together.
 
It all began with a small risk, creating bluish trees, an unintuitive choice that instigated a delightful and colorful conversation.