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Watercolor Country
Ken Austin
October 18,
2010 - January 27, 2011
Exhibit
location:
Harry P. Leu Gardens, Garden House Gallery
Harry P. Leu Gardens
hours:
Open daily from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
(except Christmas Day)
Harry P. Leu Gardens
1920 North Forest Ave.
Orlando, Florida 32803
Phone: 407 246 2620
www.leugardens.org
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GARDEN EXHIBIT: “Watercolor
Country” an exhibition of paintings by Ken Austin will be
presented in the Garden House Gallery of the Harry P. Leu
Gardens as part of Orlando’s Public Art Program.
Ken’s main interest in watercolor is in the exploration of
color, pattern and expressive painting. Equally at home with
representational or abstract painting, traditional or more
experimental techniques.
With a background as an
architect and city planner, Ken continues to explore art and
produce paintings which are included in national juried
competitions, have won praise and prizes from nationally
known artists and jurors and are in many private and
corporate collections from California to Massachusetts.
Of his work Ken states: “Art
is not the subject or the object, but the verb, the doing of
it. My work, all in watermedia, is broadly varied, and
therefore not easily categorized. All of it is important to
me, from my Big Women figure series to my abstract still
lifes, to my outdoor sketches and Florida miniatures.
There is a commonality in my
concern for shapes, colors, composition, and feeling. My
role models are varied and my tastes in technique and
concepts equally so. The techniques I use range from spatter
to gouache resist and traditional transparent watercolor. I
vary them as they suit my concepts.
Above all, I like to believe
that I am most respectful of art when I am myself, and
creating what only I can create.” |
