Kenneth James Green
I was born on April 14, 1951 in Vancouver Washington to Cyril and Beverly Green. Astrologically I am an Aries, to the Chinese I was born in the year of the Rabbit (the luckiest sign), and my number is 7 according to the numerologist (also the luckiest number). Ken in Chinese means Mountain, strong, centered and a loaner.

I was raised in Northeast Portland and attended Gregory Heights elementary school. In the middle of my 8th year my parents moved my sisters and me to the suburbs around Gresham where I attended Reynolds High School for one year. The following year my father was transferred to Spokane Washington where I attended and graduated from Mead Senior High School. It was at Mead that I began to paint seriously and actually started becoming known as a painter as well as a liberal political activist.
            After graduation I entered the San Francisco Art Academy on Russian Hill. It was always my intention to paint representatively, though the grain at the time was towards Abstraction and Expressionistic painting. Fortunately for me photo-realism was emerging in the Bay Area and New York, which gave me the permission (for lack of another word) and the courage to paint realistically.
            After a couple of years I ran out of money and left San Francisco. I worked odd jobs, traveled to the British Isles and did some writing as well as paint, still in a realist manner. After working at a hot line and crisis center for three years I enrolled in the Portland Art Museum School and earned my BFA in 1970.
            Since then I’ve been working odd jobs and painting (still in the realist style). I earned my MFA in 2000 from Antioch University LA.
            In 2001 I spent September and part of October traveling to Italy, France, Great Briton and Ireland. I was in Florence Italy on 9/11.
             After my mother's death in 2004 I received a modest trust that allowed me to paint and study Eastern and Western Philosophy full time.

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