About
Ken Buckner |
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“I
explore beauty with my camera. The photos show the journey”. |
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Born in Ohio and raised in Michigan, Ken was educated at
the University of Michigan and graduated with honors from the Art Center
College of Design in California. He then traveled to London for a year
of study in the student room of the British Museum. Moving to Manhattan, Ken worked as an art director for various advertising agencies. He transferred to Los Angeles, received national recognition for his creative work on Cole of California, designed a logo for Bill Blass and an innovative ad campaign for Pendelton. He moved to Connecticut to join a film group there and began work in photography and film for various educational and industrial accounts, especially SAAB of Sweden. Ken illustrated children’s books for three years in Westport and then turned to fine art with a commission from a multi-national corporation to paint large oils depicting several northeastern states. He also began accepting portrait commissions which included the grandson of Alfred Bloomingdale. A final move to the coast of North Carolina was made in 1976. He designed and built a studio near the sea and created in solitude, painting and photographing the beauty while completing over 100 low relief wood sculptures for various private and corporate concerns. 1n 1990, he and his wife Terry, a nationally known portrait artist, established Doe Creek Gallery. The unique studio / gallery is devoted to aesthetic realism. Ken began to concentrate totally on his passion - the beauty of nature. Photography became his main medium of expression allowing him to combine his diverse art experience, the latest computer technology, aesthetics and his love of the natural world. He now plans to continue maximum contact with nature while creating photographs of timeless beauty. |
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