About

I’m Ken Freeman. I paint by Law because that’s my father’s name. 

My new direction in my art career involves things that aren’t easily captured in the mind’s eye or on a surface.   As usual though, there’s no planning other than color choice and surface to paint on, but I do have clues that I use to help mark the way.

I’ve been influenced by Abstract Expressionists during my teenage years when I discovered art in high school.  I remember saying, “A monkey can paint better than that,” when I saw Pollock’s action paintings.  I, at the time, was perfecting my Realism.  It would be many years later before I return to Pollock’s paintings, after letting go of Realism, with tears in my eyes.

Other painters like Krasner, De Kooning and Joan Mitchell are of deep importance to me.  Joan’s work is an understanding of nature without copying.  Her use of color, strokes, movement, and texture portrays nature’s true language.

My newest work is in combination with the styles that I love.  Neo-Expressionism, Abstraction, Street Art and even Chinese calligraphy are elements that are mark the way of my new journey.  It’s challenging and frustrating, but sometimes, it is very sweet and rewarding.

I like to paint on smooth surfaces like paper and Multimedia Board.  If there’s texture on the surface, it should be from the brush, paint that I use and movement. They are all part of the story.  Every passage becomes a fact.  Every fact builds a form and every form has color or lacks it.  That is the story.

I want viewers to read each painting in his or her language.  The relationship should be personal.