Kenneth Dalton

My work begins with the oldest thing a human eye can see: the pitch‑black night and the tiny white stars. Black and white are the first colours of the universe — dark matter and star‑light — so in my paintings they represent time and infinity. When you look at my art, start there. Everything inside the frame belongs to that infinite system.

I treat the canvas like the biggest space in the universe, but it’s the frame that holds the universe I paint. I’m not limited to one dimension — my portals, wormholes, and vortexes break the flat surface and let the painting behave like a multi‑dimensional space. Shapes flip, twist, and move between planes, pulling the eye through different layers of infinity.

Before a vortex or black hole breaks apart, it behaves like a portal. If you fell into it, you could pop out the other side — the same way energy bursts through in pieces like Red Neb. When the black hole finally tears, it becomes a ringed knot: a tumbling force of energy flipping from front to back. My shapes behave like living physics, not pictures.

I take the same liberties the universe takes — wormholes, portals, time tunnels, forces, gases, quantum fields, dark matter, micro‑universes, Higgs‑boson sparks. Some of these things I ex...

Self‑directed artistic training informed by a lifelong fascination with time distortion, alternate dimensions, and the structures that hold space together. My education comes from exploring how form behaves across timelines and environment

Joined a local art club and participated in my first group show. It was an early step in sharing my work publicly, even though I felt intimidated at the time. That experience helped shape the confidence and direction of my current practice.