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Mike Henry
​2022 Featured Artist

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Mike Henry began painting eighteen years ago.  What began as a hobby quickly turned into a passion, and he found himself quickly composing scenes and thinking about the myriad of possible ways to paint them.  He continues to enjoy challenges and rewards as he pursues this passion.  His goal is to become a stronger painter every year!  Through inspiration, composition, value, and color, he wants to communicate to the viewer his love of light as it passes through the filter of the soul named Mike Henry.  He is a watermedia landscape painter working primarily with watercolor.  Mike is a native of Port Huron, Michigan and he has had his work featured in the following publications and shows:


Michigan Watercolor Society
    
Kansas Watercolor Society
    
Splash 20:  Creative Composition
        (Splash is an international publication with approximately 
        1500 to 1700 entries annually.  On average, 130 artists
        Are selected for each publication).

Splash 19:  The Illusion of Light

Splash 18:  Value: Celebrating Light and Dark

Watercolor Artist Magazine, December 2016 issue, featured as “Ones to Watch”

Various juried art shows in southeast Michigan

A favorite quote of Mike’s comes from Annie Dillard’s book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which sums up his condition.


“It is my leisure as well as my work, a game.  It is a fierce game I have joined because it is being played anyway, a game of both skill and chance, played against an unseen adversary - the conditions of time - in which the payoff, which many suddenly arrive in a blast of light at any moment, might as well come to me as anyone else.  I stake the time I’m grateful to have, the energies I’m glad to direct.”

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Featured Artists Paintings of Art on the River

Every year Art on the River commissions an artist to paint something for the event. 
This is a look back at past Featured Artists paintings.
The Mark Paul John original and Earl Robinette original are still for sale.
If you would like a print of these paintings, please contact 
artontheriverph@gmail.com for more information.

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