About Kenneth Pederson

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      With absolutely no training, l began painting with oils when I was 20.   In a few years, I sold a few.  I took some classes.  I opened a gallery.  I would go to Art Shows and offer to feature artists that I liked.  Some of them took me up on that, but the gallery didn't last very long.  One of the artists I saw was pouring enamel paint over styrofoam that she had shaped.  I loved the COLORS!  I began painting with enamel on hardboard.  

​The problems were twofold.  First, the enamel didn't stay where you put it. Second, each color has different specific gravity and different viscosity.  If you painted five colors side by side in lines of equal width, by the time they dried, not only would they no longer be straight lines, the white would be a very narrow line because it had sunk beneath the colors next to it and the yellow would have risen to the top and taken over 50% of the space.  After wrestling with that problem for several months, it occured to me that if I pressed a piece of glass to the wet paint, it would "catch" the paint as I had positioned it and "trap" it in place.  It worked!  

​I painted several Enamel on Glass paintings... and then stopped for about 20 years.  I hung some of those paintings so they would get direct sunlight every day.  I needed to find out if they faded, pealed, or cracked.

They didn't!  Those paintings are 40 years old now and just as bright and vibrant as the day I painted them.  Paint fades because it oxidizes.  The paint you see can't oxidize because it's "trapped" against the glass and oxygen can't get to it.

When I started painting again twenty years ago I switched from glass to acrylic, mostly for the weight and breakage.​​​ 

"Storms of Life"

Enamel on Glass in Walnut​