Kenton J. Kutney

"As soon as I saw it I knew I had to write this." My wife and I used to perform this song for Christmas parties, me doing my worst Elvis impersonation and Joy doing her doo-wops. In retrospect, I don’t know if I could sing that song at this stage of my life with the same hilarity. Some times in life are very blue. I for one don’t believe in flukey coincidence; too often in my life things co-incide (Latin: ‘fall in together’) with a real connection I only sometimes later see -- like dominos triggering a series or pattern.  I was given my favorite coffee-caramel candy at a Christmas party and today I went to stash some of it inside my leather motorbike jacket which was hung away until the riding season. Inside a zipper pocket I never knew was there before, I felt some paper. At first I thought maybe it was my lost drivers license; but it was actually the pocket of a completely different leather jacket underneath on the same hanger, and inside I found a folded up bulletin from

Looking back I just realized this video my good friend Anthony Yackel helped me shape about my Season of Shalom never made it’s way here. Please have a look because Art Therapy set me in a whole new life direction. Peace dude! 😉 The Peace Project

Have you seen my Facebook page? Search Kenton Kutney Art Therapy and you’ll find the whole collection.  The link below is a short video update about my journey through years of debilitating chronic illness, cancer, surgery, chemo, etc. and coming out better instead of bitter . Find out how creativity and art therapy can make such a difference! Note: I figured a backdrop of a peaceful water fountain would be preferable to a close up of my ugly mug up there the whole time. 😉 Abundant Life Journey

This mixed media resin project of multiple layers took over a year to develop and represents the rapid change of technology over the past century. Click below to see the video progression: A Century of Obsolescence (Pictured: The foundation layers of a broken, red Victor gramophone record spread out on its brittle paper dust jacket.)

Click here to watch video clip: AZULES Series in Blues I’ve been on a bit of a run here with Impasto (translates as dough, mixture, paste from the Latin ‘paste upon’). I’ve moved my experiments with light from colours to texture, seeing how the actual depth of shadows play into the mix. So I’ve purposely used a very limited palette of mostly blues (=azules in Spanish). Only recently I happened upon a very affirming documentary about Monet and Van Gogh intuiting that the atmosphere must be blue or violet. Impasto techniques push a piece from a flat painting to a three-dimensional sculptural rendering. Abstract expressionists made extensive use of it, motivated in part by a desire to create paintings which dramatically record the very action of painting itself. Unsure of what to use besides globs of actual paint (too expensive!), I’ve opted for silicone caulking like you’d use for the kitchen or bathroom and even leftover drywall mud... some good has come of those early years spent doing

Click the link below for a brief but intriguing video of my creative journey over the past year... Art Slideshow