i'm kenT, and i'm an artist. but not the tortured kind. i'm on a mission to make the walls of your home, office or secret lair as memorable as you are. i'm also a teacher. i offer work shops + caffeine laden posts to jump start your own creative process. have you ever gotten completely + totally lost? maybe in the pages of your all-time favorite book. maybe in your daughter's tangled hair, or perhaps in a kiss. we all want to 'get lost.' we crave it. we need it. and the busier life gets, the more we forget how to do it. i'm a lucky guy, because I've found my own way to get lost ... every day. all I have to do is pick up a brush, stop thinking, start feeling ... and paint. owning a piece of my art probably won't 'change your life. but it might make you pause, breathe, smile and remember to get lost ... just a little more often. the backstory i started painting several years ago, without any big plans or ambitions. it was hard, unpredictable, time-consuming - and the best thing ever. by the end of day one, i was hooked. one gallery show led to another, and before long i was selling paintings to friends, family + a handful of local fans. local sales turned into national sales. national sales turned into licensing deals. bulk orders from CB2 came knocking, along with flash sales at fab.com, pops-ups in people magazine - and flattering attention from a couple of those 'home makeover' reality tv shows. one day, i woke up and realized, "huh ... guess I'm a full-time artist, now." i grinned. and then put brush to canvas again. the nowstory i live in north carolina with my (amazing) family. i wake up at 5am most mornings, work out, whirl the kids off to school, check my computer for new orders, plant myself in the center of (at least) ten half-covered canvases, and rarely stop moving 'til nightfall. i'm usually splattered in about seven colors of paint. it's a good way to move through the world. life is complicated enough, so I keep my work simple. i hope it makes you look. i hope it makes you smile. i hope it makes you feel ... something you've been wanting to feel, for a while.