Ken Kennell has lived on Maui since April 2001, after 22 years in Alaska where he built a log home and raised three daughters. Ken has been creating paintings since 1970, mostly employing an impressionist technique known as Pointillism.

The French Neo-Impresissonists Georges Seurat and Paul Signac were the first artists to popularize the demanding style of Pointillism, or as they preferred to call it - Divisionism. This kind of painting depends upon the close juxtaposition of tiny points of intense pure-tone colors to produce a whole that is made up of its integral vibratory parts. It is also, as you can imagine, one of the most time-consuming styles of painting known.

But unlike Signac's and Seurat's work, Ken Kennell attempts to create works that are alive with movement rather than static, paintings that seem to change with one's "angle of regard". While still being faithful to Pointillisms style based on the law of optics and simultaneous color contrasts, there is a marked lack of Divisionist rigidity in Ken Kennell's paintings.

In addition to being a painter, Ken is an accomplished woodcarver, furniture builder, musician, and in the capacity of project superintendent, a builder of one of a kind custom homes. Ken also teaches Art and Guitar to children and adults.

Since March 2002, Ken has been focused on a slow process of building a body of work in preparation of making his art available for presentation to galleries. Most of his previous work was created in Alaska. He has been awarded commissions by the Municipality of Anchorage for work placed in the Anchorage International Airport, Miller Brewing Company, The Westward Hilton, Alyeska Prince Hotel, and works comissioned by private collectors

Recently he had a painting accepted in the "Maui Portrait Challenge" at the Schaeffer Gallery, offering the richest jurors award in state history. His portrait of the famed island Luthier Steve Grimes was one of 52 selected out of over 250 entries statewide to compete for this honor.

In addition to exhibiting his work at the Hana Coast Gallery, the Lahaina Art Society's Old Courthouse Gallery and Banyan Tree Art Fair, Ken has had solo exhibits at Troposphere Studios in Haiku, The Toast Theatre's Loft Gallery, The Gottstein Building lobby at University of Alaska Anchorage. His work is in prestigious private collections in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California and Texas.