Ken Nash was born and raised in Armstrong in the North Okanagan Valley in British Columbia and has created art for fifty years using a variety of mediums including ink, coloured pencil and acrylics on paper, wood and canvas. Inspired by the beauty of the valley around him, he started painting when he was eight years old and over time developed the techniques that he applies today. His work can now be described in the genre of photorealism and is an excellent conduit to reflect the beauty of the wilderness of British Columbia, Canada, and other parts of the world.

For most of his career, he focused on commissioned work and continues to provide clients with an opportunity to have his beautiful art hanging on their walls. As an example, Ken completed a corporate commission for a government agency for their boardroom in Vancouver in 2015. It involved ten feet of canvas with an agricultural theme.  He has undertaken a number of private commissions, most recently a painting delivered to a client in Langley.

He had an exhibition of his work in November 2017 in Armstrong BC titled “Home Again”. Ken is also a featured artist for a group called Westart which puts on three big shows annually in March, May and September with partial sales going to charities. Please check out www.westart.ca  He is also one of thirty artists who will have their work digitized and adapted to wrap utility boxes in Richmond and Steveston through 2019.

Ken became a signature member of the Artists for Conservation in 2016. Although his landscape paintings (as they relate to the pristine habitats that need to be conserved), are consistent with the theme of the world-wide group, he has recently begun to paint wildlife in his unique style for further integration with the theme. On the conservation theme, Ken  agreed to donate a painting for a show in the fall of 2017 at Science World in Vancouver with proceeds going toward endangered amphibians.

 His work is currently represented in the Berg Galleries in Grande Prairie Alberta, and in Kananaskis, Alberta, and he is actively seeking to expand his representation elsewhere. As a result, his work was also represented last summer in the Arta Gallery in Toronto, situated in the beautifully historic Distillery District. For further evidence of the scope of his work please visit www.realscapes.ca  .

Ken was also profiled in a Winter edition of the Canadian art magazine Arabella which features an in-depth look into the history of his life as an artist and how his work has evolved and been influenced over time.