About the Artist
Henry Manning, Oregon Coast Artist
Telephone: 541.270.9981
Email: Henry@HenryManningArtist.com
Selective Accomplishments:
- Solo show at Wilsonville Public Library
- Art displayed at The Freed Gallery, Lincoln City, Oregon
- Established online art gallery
- Recent solo show of Minimalist Landscape work (Breakers Gallery; Waldport, Oregon)
- Formal arts training; Bachelors Degree with honors
- Visual arts educator – Volunteer prison work – painting course; Experimental College course – Sculpting in Stone; HSV Painting Methods DVD (in production)
- Numerous community art shows – paintings and sculpture in stone
- Graphic Artist – CD cover design, logo design, website graphic design
- Digital Artist – website portfolio
- Web Architect/Designer – Industrial/Commercial
- Multi-instrument jazz musician; numerous performing bands
- Music recording studio engineer, Pioneer Square, Seattle
- Self-published novelist, poet
Residence Trail:
- Born in Waltham, Massachusetts
- Youth/young adulthood spent in rural Eastern Connecticut.
- Homeports New London, Connecticut and Holy Loch, Scotland (Submarine Service),
- Storrs, Connecticut ( University of Connecticut); Painting, Sculpture, Psychology of Perception majors.
- Coastal Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, for many years.
- Transplant to Bay Area, California via Alexandria, Virginia.
- Back to Rhode Island.
- On to Seattle, Washington, for many years,
- To Boca Raton, Florida,
- To Portland, Oregon,
- To Seattle, Washington.
- Relocated to Wellington, New Zealand.
- Returned to Northwest, US; Portland initially, then
- Austin, Texas, briefly.
- RVing for a year, address uncertain,
- To Central Oregon Coast town of Waldport;
- To Melbourne, Florida, briefly.
- Europe for the summer;
- Settled in Portland area, Oregon
Visual Arts Training:
University of Connecticut: Painting, Sculpture, Psychology of Perception
Principal art influences include:
- Joseph Albers (color interaction theory); Paul Zelanski (an early professor of mine and himself a student of Josef Albers), and numerous other visual perception theorists.
- Post Impressionist and Modern Masters: Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Winslow Homer, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Kenneth Noland, Milton Avery, David Hockney, Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Isamu Noguchi, Barbara Hepworth, David Smith, to name a few.
Mailing Address:
Henry Manning
PO Box 1125
Waldport, OR 97394