eric Henty

Eric Henty grew up in the woods and fields surrounding small suburban towns in Massachusetts and New York. He always felt at home with nature and spent a lot of time outdoors. Every summer, his family would travel into Canadian wilderness and spend several weeks boating, hiking, and fishing miles from other human beings. His grandparents were both artists on his mother’s side, his grandfather having developed new lighting fixtures and instrumental in designing the lighting for the Alamo, and 1964 World’s Fair in NYC. He had worked with Frank Lloyd Wright and said, though he was a brilliant architect, he was “not too practical.”

In addition to creating abstract figurative artworks, he also paints purely abstract canvases.  “I find it a completely different way of working,” he states. “The abstracts have a musical quality for me, and as I reach the final stages of creating a canvas, I actually hear classical music playing in my mind.”  The color, forms, and composition of all of his works make up a distinct body of artwork unique to Eric Henty alone.