Henry Stinson

“I like to use symbols in my work that have mythological or spiritual connotations. I paint because I have to. It’s one of my connections to a feeling of higher purpose. To me, my paintings always seem much better when I get out of the way and just let them happen.”

Henry Stinson was born in Anchorage, Alaska but spent much of his childhood in the Pacific Northwest. A serious artist for the past 30 years, his university training began with Washington State University. It was continued at the Art Institute of Seattle and ended with 4 years of intensive study—painting with master impressionist teacher Ron Lukas in his Seattle Studio.

Stinson has taught drawing and painting for the past 22 years in numerous colleges and privately owned schools, and is currently teaching national workshops as well. He is a gifted instructor, noted most for his unique ability to create vivid color on canvas in a manner which inspires and supports the ideal learning situation for painting students.

His paintings have been in several museum group shows and exhibited in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Florida, Washington, and Oregon as well as the United States Embassy in Geneva Switzerland. Henry’s love of painting the unique stems from his inability to resist capturing those unusual moments in life that make each of us step back and think. It may be a humorous thought or a moment of beauty, or simply something that catches the eye and sits on the edge of the memory. Whatever the origin, Henry has the singular ability to translate moments into paintings, making his work popular with private collectors both in the US and abroad.