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Ken Pattern
Hand Drawn Stone Lithograph
12 x 15 in.
Value: $450.00
Rental per month: $10.00
Ken Pattern is a Canadian landscape artist who has lived in Jakarta Indonesia since 1989. Pattern works in a variety of media including drawing, painting and printmaking (stone lithography). Of special note are pen and ink drawings, lithographs and paintings of rural and urban landscapes of Jakarta and other parts of Indonesia. Through these intricate images Pattern is documenting an Indonesian social heritage that is fast disappearing.
Beginning in 1978, he has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Asia, North America and Europe. Over the years Ken has gathered a devoted group of collectors and his work can be found in private as well as public collections.
“My earliest influences were the work of Rene Magritte and M.C. Esher. Early themes were surrealistic/satirical images of the conflict between humans and nature. Coming from a part of Canada where forestry is a major industry much of the early work dealt with this subject. Eventually I evolved into a landscape artist, both surreal and representational in style.
Currently, I work mainly in painting and drawing media and every two years return to the Malaspina studio in Vancouver to spend several months creating a series of limited edition lithographs. Until 1997 most of these editions featured the colourful rural landscape of those parts of Indonesia I have visited. In 1997, I began to produce limited edition lithographs of Jakarta scenes in black & white. These scenes deal with the same subject matter as the earlier pen & ink drawings.”