Ken Auster grew up in the Los Angeles area and as a teen he was swept up in the 1960s surfing craze. Ken paints with the freshness of the ocean waves and the exoticism of the worm tropics.
As a Plein Air Impressionist painter, Ken has expanded his artistic focus beyond the surf and tropical themes. “I went on a personal search several years ago. And I discovered that there’s a whole big world out there beyond the beach, a world full of other things that are beautiful but that we take for granted” (Ken Auster)
Screen-printing is the most painterly of the printing techniques. It allows the use of layer upon layer of color, exploiting line and mass in bold ways.
The inks can be printed as rich impastos or thin transparent glazes. The result is a print that is both vivid in hue and displays a rich tactile surface.