GORDON HENSCHEL, AFCA

My father was a trapper in an age when dog teams and canoes were the mode of travel in Eastern Manitoba and Northern Ontario where, from pre-school years until my late teens I was literally a product of that wilderness. It has irrevocably shaped my art. Always a drawing enthusiast, I learned to paint in oils and acrylics under the tutelage of Arni Siggurdson, an artist friend with an art degree from Denmark. After a move to Port McNeill on Northern Vancouver Island, watercolours became an important part of my life in order to capture the soft hues and mists of the coast. I have been painting for over forty years, twenty-one of them full time professionally. 

Over the years I have been associated with innumerable galleries and have been a member of the FCA for over twenty of them. In 1980, my wife, Ann and I began Henschel Fine Arts Which evolved into our own two thousand square foot gallery and a six hundred square foot studio. These have become a Northern Vancouver Island point of interest and tourist attraction. Our website has existed for over three years and keeps us in touch with our many collectors from all over the world. I continue to enjoy as much "plein air" painting as possible in a wilderness only minutes away.

Whale Watching - Telegraph Cove
22.5" x 16"

Available in Limited Edition Print