Kent Darwin's Bio

ent Darwin's art includes work in watercolor, fine line pen drawing, and pencil. His artist's vision expresses his deep fascination with nature, born of long summers spent on his grandparents' farm in southern Arkansas. His preferred subjects are landscapes, seascapes, and flowers.

Kent Darwin's art includes works in watercolor, fine line pen drawings, pencil, and oil palette knife. His artist's vision expresses his deep fascination with nature, born of summers spent on his grandparents' farm in southern Arkansas. His subjects include landscapes, seascapes and flowers.

"The gift of art allows me, wherever I am, to see beauty in the world around me. Frequently subjects and scenes cry out 'Paint me!" His vivid depiction of flowers, sunrises and sunsets, and his serene landscapes capture nature's colors and light at their most memorable. It delights him when a person asks where a scene was painted because he knows his work has evoked personal memories of a place.

A resident of Coppell, Texas, a Dallas suburb, Kent continues to have one-man shows and continues to work to develop his drawing and painting skills. "I have been accused of crocheting my art. Artist friends have urged me to use larger brushes, and I have learned to do that, but it is hard for me because I am fascinated by the challenge of reproducing nature's intricate shapes. In the spring of 2005, I began taking art lessons using a palette knife for applying oil to the canvas. Sometimes I think I get more oil paint on my clothing than on the canvas".

Frequently he is commissioned to create a painting from photographs. "The photographs allow me to focus precisely on what the client has in mind." They allow Kent to paint day or night. "Physically and mentally, I can immerse myself in my art for four or five hours; then I need a break."

It is always a pleasure for him to spend time at his family cabin on the Tennessee River, located in a remote area of Decatur County, Tennessee. "The cabin is quite primitive. We don't have electricity or gas, though we do have indoor plumbing…when the pump operates properly." Often, while fishing, water skiing, canoeing, or walking the woods, creeks and fields, he is storing images: a stump in the inlet, the reflection of clouds on the river, rock formations in the stream bed, shadows on a heavily wooded hillside.

Kent retired in 2001 after 32 years with 3M Company's Healthcare Division in order to devote more time to his passion for drawing and painting parts of this good earth.

Since then he has found inspiration in his travels to Italy, Great Britain, Greece, and Mykonos, and Turkey. Maui remains one of his favorite artistic destinations.

Kent's art is displayed in homes and offices across the United States and in some foreign countries.