Artist Ken Swinson | Kentucky Life | KET
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Channel: KET - Kentucky Educational Television · 2013 · People & Blogs
Maysville, Ky's Ken Swinson is a painter and printmaker who experiments with new techniques, including art on the iPad, which he has featured on his website gallery. There are strong geometric patterns throughout his work, perhaps the result of his mother's passion for quilting. Many of Swinson's pieces feature whimsical farm animals and bright colors. As the son of an Army officer, Ken Swinson has lived all over the world. But this self-taught artist has made the Maysville, Kentucky area his home for more than 12 years now, and his bike rides and car trips along Northern Kentucky's back roads frequently inspire his art. The Bracken County Public Library in Brooksville features four large murals that Swinson painted in honor of a friend, the late Makensie Hay Youngman. Family and friends each added to the paintings, making the work a healing project for everyone. Swinson enjoys teaching others. He travels in his brightly painted art-mobile to help others find their artistic vision at workshops and schools.
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