Ken Orton is a figurative painter. He lives in Roxbury in the Catskill Mountains 130 miles north of New York City. In the nearby village of Margaretville he has a gallery displaying his current work. His work includes portraiture and landscape.
In recent years his landscape and still-life work has focused repeatedly on the disused and redundant, using dilapidated motels, rusting old cars and mothballed aircraft as his themes.
He has traveled from Alcatraz to Block Island and uses his skills as a draughtsman and colourist in producing a body of unique and sensitive images, an Englishman's poignant vision of the lost toys of the American Dream.
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"Alex's River"
Oil on Canvas
10 X 87
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