“Come See What I have found!”

I found the "spirit of life" and an exciting way to share it with you so you can experience hope, renewal and belonging.

The purpose of an artist is to be able to see what is not apparent and paint that spirit on canvas. As Frederick Franck put it “The Awakened Eye.”

When the astronauts looked back at the earth they were amazed at the miracle of life that was happening on this world. We belong with the other elements in this world, such as air, water, earth, plants, and animals. All cooperating together for the continuation of life. This cooperation is the “spirit of life” which brings hope and renewal.

Kendall is a sensitive artist who found a way to paint powerful paintings with that “spirit of life” in exquisite detail that come from his heart and imagination. He paints the welcoming belonging, the renewing and hope the spirit of life has. His paintings are not ordinary paintings. He has gone beyond traditional art forms and created a new art form which allows him to paint paintings with feelings of hope and renewal along with the delightful feeling of being in real nature.  

Kendall’s Story

Kendall was born and raised near the entrance of Yellowstone Park and the Grand Tetons in eastern Idaho where he enjoyed hiking, motor cycling, canoeing, and fishing on all the back trails. Born into a family of poets, writers, and musicians, his French-English heritage gives him passion, sensitivity, and a flair for perfectionism. 

Kendall’s family had a “family business”. From the time he was a preschooler on through his young adult years he was taught that the survival of the family business depended on him being part of it. Kendall felt that his standing in the family was closely tied to what he could do in the business. After years of being in the business, the dynamics became very oppressive for him, his job became obsolete, he was no longer wanted in the business and out of necessity he had to leave the business.

Kendall went into a deep state of depression after leaving. As he sought for relief he found that being in nature seemed to help. He spent hours being in nature. He often took his daughter with him to hike in the forest. He affectionately calls her “nature girl”. One time as they were standing by Jackson Lake, in Wyoming, looking across to the Teton mountains, she said “This is for you, you are important, you have something valuable to give.” That encouragement was life saving for him. His painting of “Playful Painter Sun, Gold Mist Palette” reminds him of that tender moment with his daughter, in nature. He began to feel even more a part of nature and to feel what nature had. He saw how nature was always changing, becoming, and renewing. There was a future in nature. From nature he felt that there was the process of changing and things would happen, good things could happen with effort and faith. He was able to feel those truths and positive things in nature and inspired him to do that in his life. He searched out who he was and what his talents and abilities were. He used his fine art background to create a new art form to paint with. Then he experienced a great healing process as he painted his first five paintings that he gratefully named “New Hope Series” He discovered that he had a great desire to share the healing feelings he found in nature, the hope, the renewal with others. The new painting medium he created made it possible for him to carefully paint in those healing feelings of nature in each of his paintings.

A few years before Kendall had to leave the family electronics business, Kendall felt that electronics was not who he was. So, he went back to college and decided to study fine art. Kendall loved the language of art and it felt like an important part of who he was. After four years of intense study in art school and applying all he learned he was honored with the Presidential Award for Best Artist. He decided to find a way to use his fine art training to create a new career as an artist.

He had in his mind and heart a desire to paint his feelings of nature in its wonderful real detail. He tried traditional mediums but couldn’t create all that he wanted to express. He felt that possibly there could be a way with a new painting medium. He spent three years of intense struggle to develop his own fine art painting tools. With these tools it became possible for him to paint inspirational paintings from his mind, beautiful paintings with incredible detail. He used the fine art principles of the masters with the technology of today. In describing his painting work he says, “I am in a computer at a canvas, that canvas is as real as any out here. The tools are real but they are beyond oil, watercolor, and acrylic. I have many palettes to choose from. I can paint with all the elements and principles of fine art, but in detail.”

Kendall is the creator and pioneer of this new fine art medium, which he named “Giclée Painting on Canvas”. His new art form encompasses reality-real nature, impressionism, contemporary, realism. His new way of painting allows him to paint his emotions, stories, and poetry in a powerful manner. Imagine the familiar feelings of nature around you as you wander through one of his paintings and experience the hope and renewal that is part of the “spirit of life.” His powerful paintings can bring you to a new realm, an exciting new place to be.

New Medium Created

The Spirit of Yosemite

Five Disciplines

Kendall has five important disciplines to create these paintings. It is rare to find someone who has all five of these.

1)  Share stories and poetry with emotions: He was sought after in high school for his writing skills for the high school newspaper. He studied and became skilled at writing  about real emotions in a poetic manner and has a flare for story telling with a delightful  touch of humor. He expresses those emotions, stories, and humor in his artwork.

            2)  Fine art skills: Four years of college level art school.

            3)  Professional photography:  As a young boy he was fascinated with photography and started his life-long study of it when he was nine, which eventually led him to be a skilled  professional photographer. He paints with photo references which he skillfully takes.

            4)  Use of an extensive background in computer technology, hardware, and software, to create a brand-new virtual painting environment.

            5)  Professional printing skills:  To get his paintings in a tangible form required extensive study of printing methods, calibration, and the skill to run a large format printer.  He affectionately calls his printer his paint brush because that is how he renders his paintings on canvas.