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KenKnight • Village Galleries Maui
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| Village Galleries and The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua Hotel present. . . Fred KenKnight • Meet the Artist on Aloha Fridays, 9am - 12 pm at The Village Galleries, located off the lobby) Artist's Statement… "Currently,for a change of pace and my own pleasure, I am painting mostly abstracts, relying on color and form without the restrictions of realistic subject matter. With abstracts there is a great sense of freedom and adventure. I'm enjoying the journey.” Fred KenKnight
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Born in New York in 1934, Fred lived in San Diego and La Jolla, California from 1938 to 1976. Following four years in the United States Air Force, and with strong encouragement from his family, Fred began his art career in his early twenties with full time instruction at the Coronado School of Fine Arts near San Diego. Fred opened a studio/gallery
on Prospect Street in LaJolla overlooking the famous La Jolla
Cove and, later, taught art for the San Diego Community College
District for several years before his first visit to Hawaii in
1976. Along with his wife, Anne, and their two sons Dan and Jon,
he knew after the first few weeks that Hawaii was now home. Thanks
to some San Diego friends, in 1971, his paintings had made the
trip to Maui before he did, so catching up with them at Village
Gallery was merely a formality.
After many years of painting in acrylic, Fred made the transition to watercolor as his primary medium, while traveling and painting on location in 1976. I like the challenge of watercolor. "It is the most difficult of mediums, outside of fresco." Fred's latest works are dramatic abstracts in acrylic on canvas and watercolor. A select collection of his realistic Maui Plein Air watercolors are available, along with giclees on paper or canvas. For more information or to request images of available works: click here
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Above: Canoe Beach, giclee available
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