Kent Youngstrom is both an artist and an author. He’s on a mission to make the walls of homes, offices or secret lairs as memorable as possible. He’s also a teacher. He offers work shops and caffeine laden posts to jump start the readers’ own creative processes. He says that art can be intimidating but it shouldn’t be and he promises to make it not so. Basically, Youngstrom is a self-taught painter with a background in interior design and graphic design, which means he respects and appreciates happy collaborations, focused instructions and meaningful deadlines, and, above all, clients who pay up on time. Youngstrom started painting several years ago, without any big ambitions or plans. It was unpredictable, hard, time-consuming, but it was fun. By the end of the first day, he was hooked. And soon he began exhibiting, one gallery show led to another, and before long, the artist was selling paintings to family, friends and a handful of local fans.
These local sales turned into national sales which in turn became national sales and soon turned into licensing deals. Due to the quality of his work and the referrals he was enjoying from his satisfied clients, bulk orders from CB2 started coming, along with pops-ups in people magazine and flash sales at fab.com — and flattering attention from a couple of those reality TV shows that deal with home makeover. One day when he woke up he thought of becoming a full time artist, he smiled and then painted some more, and decided to become a full time artist. He now lives in North Carolina with his family.
