A UC Berkeley graduate with a degree in Political Science but with no formal art training, Senske is entirely self-taught. He began consigning his original pen & ink drawings of beach and sailing scenes to a local gallery when he was just fourteen years old, and by the age of 20 he was painting in color with acrylics.

Within just a few years, he had cultivated a thriving cottage industry, converting his Long Beach themed paintings into greeting cards that he wholesaled to Hallmark gift stores throughout the city, including Hyatt Hotels, City Hall, the Port of Long Beach, Long Beach Airport and American Golf Corporation. Even the Mayor of Long Beach, the Honorable Beverly O’Niell (1994-2006), commissioned Senske to design her personal Christmas card every year she was in office.

In 1998, Senske was honored by the American Society of Marine Artists at the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum in Newport Beach, California (“A Brush with the Sea”). He was the youngest artist participating in an international cast of painters and watercolorists that included Englishman John Stobart, who was widely considered the greatest Maritime artist in the world at the time. Two of Senske’s original paintings—one a heart pumping rendition of Naples Sabot sailboats racing in Alamitos Bay (“Logjam”, 36”x48”, acrylic on canvas), and the other an epic panorama of San Francisco Bay (“Summer in The City”, 18”x72”, acrylic on canvas), were official selections in the juried exhibit.

In 2021, Long Beach Airport and the City of Long Beach commissioned Senske to produce 21 giant mural-sized reproductions of his most iconic paintings and installed them throughout the concourse, where they serve as the face of Long Beach to over 3 million travelers who visit California’s fifth largest city each year.