Beauty For Ashes

Before & after prints of the Eaton Fire in Altadena, CA.

Fireplace with two framed landscape paintings above it, on a beige wall, with a partial view of a gray chair on the left and a wooden side table on the right.

On January 7, 2025, the Eaton Fire ravaged more than 9,000 homes and businesses in Keni’s home town of Altadena, CA; many of which he has painted en plein air (on-site) over 40 years.

Keni sees beauty coming from destruction, and thus began his new series of watercolors; Beauty For Ashes. He will remain and paint on the streets until the ‘new’ (and hopefully in many ways ‘same’) Altadena rises from the ashes.

A portion of the proceeds support Altadena recovery efforts.