HENRY ISAACS
Over the last thirty- plus years the natural and inhabited landscape has evolved as the consistent subject for Henry Isaacs' pictures. From gestural abstractions to more realistically defined images, these have clear origins from Henry's many years of observational, anatomical and studio work. 
A series for Henry can span a decade's relationship to a particular geography. From coastal America and the Rocky-Mountain West to deserts and tropical islands, Isaacs travels in pursuit of contrasting landscapes that challenge him to interpret and redefine his experience of presence at these places. The subjects that Isaacs paints year-round are often reachable only by hiking or back country skiing.
His great love of nature is evident in his views of glistening snowfields and staccato-like visions of desert flowers, in the luminous violet of storms as well as in the warm bright reds of sunlit flowers.
Henry is fond of admitting that he holds a rarified lifestyle. "Who else gets to go to the world's most extraordinary spots, and be paid to sit contemplating vast expanses of sky and earth, or to paint amidst the delightful intimacy of a friend's garden?"
Gallery North Star is proud to present the figure studies of Henry Isaacs. These works have never been seen outside of Europe where Isaacs is better known for his figurative work.
Henry continues to be an activist in promoting understanding and research in health fields and uses his art to raise funds in the quest for a cure for Breast Cancer and to support Oncology Nursing Staffs through the Lisa DeFrancis Cancer Fund. He continues to lecture on the use of visual imagery to remember and understand tragedy and the role of art to help preserve humanity and dignity.
Isaacs received degrees in painting and printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He has taught in art schools in Britain, Italy, and the US., and maintains a home and studio in the blue-green hills of Vermont.