When Kenneth was a child, his mother had already recognized his enthusiasm and talent in art. When he was eight years old, he told his mother to clear out the living room so he could have a studio. Ken commandeered the TV table for his palette and continues to use this same palette today.

Every year in high school, Freeman won the Stanford University scholarship awarded to students from five regions to study at the art school of the winner's choice. Freeman chose to study at the American Academy of Art. He graduated from art school just one year after graduating high school, and then launched a successful 20-year career as an illustrator.

John Singer Sargent has always been Freeman's idol as a portrait artist, and Freeman has maintained a portrait style in all his art forms, including oil and bronze. His models are unanimously impressed by his ability to capture on canvas the essence of humanity.

His accolades include winning the Salmagundi Show in New York City, the Union League Club of Chicago, being chosen four times as artist for the Parada del Sol Rodeo in Scottsdale, AZ. and having a painting selected for the 1988 Prescott Centennial Rodeo. The painting was used as the inside cover of Arizona Highways. His painting entitled "Heluva Good Morning" won Pick of Show in "The Cowboy" at the San Diego Museum of Fine Art. He is affectionately known as, the "Rembrandt of Rodeo" by members of the press. Former First lady Barbara Bush invited him to show at the Smithsonian Institute in conjunction with the planned Native American Museum extravaganza. In addition to creating book covers for Louis L'Amour and other Western authors, Freeman produced original art for Hamilton Collectibles, a ten plate series called "Proud Indian Families." His notable clients for portraits include President Herbert Hoover, elder Okland of the Mormon Church and founder of Okland Corporation, western recording artist Ray Herndon, Senator Lister Hill and many famous actors. For ten years, the American Medical Association annually commissioned Freeman as their official portrait artist. He was recently commissioned to do the first official portrait of Nelson Mandela.