My sweet man, Allen Ray Kerns passed away January 30, 2015. He was 71 years old. The head shot is from 1971 when Allen and I were living on Galiano
Island, BC Canada. Al was an artist's artist. He painted and composed paintings up until the week before he died. His love for the American southwest landscape came from watching John Wayne movies like 'The Searchers' and 'Stagecoach'. In 1986 we moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico from Alberta, Canada where Al had attended the Alberta College of Art in Calgary. From...more