Ken Duffin Fine Art

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About the artist

Since his return WWll and his schooling at the Art Center College of Design,
Ken Duffin has been a professional artist. For many years he was a freelance artist
with his studio in San Francisco working on advertising accounts such
as Bank of America, Standard Oil, Kaiser Aluminum, Safeway,
Hewlett-Packard, PG&E and others. Later he moved to Seattle to
become a Boeing artist. Here he painted airplanes in flight as well as
promotional illustrations. After leaving Boeing, he again became a
freelance artist , this time in Seattle and specializing in architectural
illustration. These many years of fast-pace production, meeting
deadlines and other demands developed skill and discipline which he
now finds useful in his most recent direction.

In his remaining years here in Eastern Washington, he now paints,
released from the demands of commercial art. He loves the outdoors
with sunlight and shadows, fog, rain and all the elements, trees and
fields and mountains and lakes and rivers, almost anything from nature.
His home now is the Northwest where he has lived for 40 years and
where nature abounds. Trips to the mountains and beaches provide
him with an abundant supply of material for his paintings. He
occasionally travels to other parts of the country, and abroad to gather
material to paint.

Ken is a life member and past president of the Puget Sound Group of
Northwest Painters, a 85 year old organization that has had many of
Northwest's finest painters as members.
He was a founding member of the 'San Francisco Society of
Illustrators' and a contributing member of the US Air Force
Documentary Art Program, again paintings are donated
documenting experiences had while visiting Air Force Bases around
the world. He is also a member of 'Oil Painters of America' and a
signature member of the 'Northwest Watercolor Society'.

Shows and awards

His paintings have been accepted in many juried shows, including the
national Arts for the Parks annual top 100 in 1999 and 2001 and
several times in the top 200. Paintings of his were selected in
competitions for posters for the Washington cities of Redmond,
Edmonds [twice], Chelan and also for the 75th anniversary Ellensburg
Rodeo
In East Side Fine Arts Association shows of Bellevue,Wa. he won first
prize in 1997 and third prize in each of two shows in 2001. He has
been accepted and won awards in the annual Puget Sound Country
Show, as well as shows in Ocean Shores, Anacortes, Edmonds,
La Conner, Chelan. and others
He has won best of show at the second annual
Peninsula Art Exhibition of 2004 in Gig Harbor, Wa.,and best of show in Lake Chelan
2010 juried art exhibition.
He also had a painting accepted in the recent Oil Painters of America
national and regional shows
Duffin's paintings hang in numerous homes and offices throughout the
country.