“Safe Haven”

"Safe Haven"

“Safe Haven” is a piece I created from my imagination. I started it during an event called Hot Summer Nights on Main Street in St Charles, MO . I had so much fun interacting with the crowd of viewers during the event.  I love the tree especially. It’s a little leaning which kind of reminds me of me.  It is currently on exhibit along with much of my other new works at Framations Art Gallery in St Charles, Mo. I am a resident artist at the gallery, so you can always see my latest works in person there! Stop by next time you are in the area. For directions visit www.Framations.com.

“Maxx Under Cover”

Maxx Under Cover

“Maxx Under Cover” was created especially for the Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation’s Annual Gala event benefit called Works of Arf & was solely featured on all of the promotional materials for this event. Works of Arf raises much needed funds to help the Alliance’s legislative work for animal welfare in Missouri. It was an honor to be able to do this for the Alliance.

During Works of Arf, I also demonstrated my techniques for the crowd & created “Lazy River” during the benefit.  I submitted “Lazy River” for the Lake St Louis Winter Show where it won in the acrylic category.

“Lazy River” will be up for Silent Auction at the upcoming benefit event called “Open Your Heart” at Harry’s restaurant in downtown St Louis.  Open Your Heart is also a benefit for the Alliance.  This is a cause close to my heart & such a worthy organization.  For info & tickets to Open Your Heart,  please visit www.MAAL.org . I’ll see you there!

"Lazy River" will be up for auction at the "Open Your Heart" benefit event for the Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation

Exhibit at Delmar Gardens

This was a very special Christmas for us with a Ken Farris solo art show & painting demonstration taking place while a singer & performer sang holiday & show tunes for the residents of Delmar Gardens West. My wife’s mother, who is a resident of Delmar was our inspiration for the show.

The art exhibition consisted of 10 paintings I had created over the years of winter scenes as well as 3 paintings I created as a benefit fundraiser for the Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation. (The Alliance used these images for their 2008 holiday cards, which was a banner success for them!)

During the Demonstration for the residents, I completed a painting that was 22×28 which I had designed to be split into four paintings upon completion. Four residents were lucky enough to win these 4 paintings by raffle.
Co-Owner of Framations Art Gallery, Amy Wilson, graciously donated  four beautilful 2″ gold frames for these paintings, too!  In addition, Amy & my wife Dee created 200 ornaments with an image of my “Santa Harley Dog” painting  that we gave to every resident so that all of them would receive a special present!  After the events were over, we helped each of the four residents hang their framed painting in their rooms.

The residents had a fabulous time & I think we really made their Christmas a very special one for them!  I know it was a very special one for me.

Here are some photos from the day:

Ken Farris at Work

This is the piece before we seperated the painting into 4 paintings.

The paintings after seperation.