Henry Isaacs

Currently residing in Maine year round, Henry continues to be inspired by his natural and expansive surroundings…painting water, mountains, streams, and rivers with a sense of freshness that is inexplicable. His paintings are of a lovely palette that describe a crispness in his strong brush strokes which capture the place and moment in time…whether it is the wisp of a sail on a boat or a mountain range in the distance.

Henry says of his work, “I usually work slowly, building from a general composition lightly defined by line, adding the darkest darks and the brightest highlights, painting these darker and brighter than anything possible. The softening and subtleties come later; sometimes the original colors stay, sometimes not. The selections of detail, texture, movement, shape and form are often glued together with the light that I observe. I think of light as a very tangible presence in my view of places; the objects that inhabit the composition receive and hold this light in values relative to each other.”

Henry has had a varied and impressive education beginning with the Slade School of fine Art inLondon, to the Rhode Island School of Design and the Putney School, where he graduated from in 1969.

Henry’s teaching career has taken him overseas to England and Italy with many years teaching at Massachusetts College of Art and other fine institutions. Special projects range from curating several exhibitions to lecturing across the states. His work is represented in many fine galleries and is in the collection of a host of corporations.

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