Ken Done is an Australian designer and painter best known for his brightly colored depictions of nudes, still lifes, and Sydney, Australia. The artist’s work is reminiscent of paintings by Raoul Dufy and David Hockney in their playful use of a single brushstroke to create an object. Beyond his painting, Done’s work has adorned countless hats, towels, and bags in Australia produced by him and his wife’s company, Done Design. This mixing of commercial and fine art, the artists has described, is “like singing a popular song. You sing a song [and people think], ‘That’s the guy that sang that song,’” but “Oh no I sing other songs as well. I actually write operas.” Born on June 29, 1940 in Sydney, Australia, Done began his studies at the National Art School in East Sydney at only 14 years old before beginning a career in advertising with the London-based J. Walter Thompson agency in 1959. The artist returned to Sydney a decade later and began pursuing his own work full time in 1975. He was the subject of a retrospective in 1994 at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, and his works are in the collections of the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, the Suntory Collection in Tokyo, and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, among others. Done lives and works in Sydney, Australia.