Welcome to the Sabby Painter Podcast, the Podcast for Artists who Mean Business. Here's your

host, Antrice Wood.

Hello, it's Antrice, and welcome to another episode of the savvy painter

podcast. My guest today is Henry Isaacs. Henry is a landscape painter who

splits his time between Vermont in Ilsford Island in Maine.

His landscapes are an exploration of color in which, as he will tell you, he plays with perspective,

alters horizon lines and uses the full 360 degree view

to pull elements from.

Henry has learned to twist horizon lines and think differently from a close friendship with a couple who survived Hiroshima.

He pulls ideas and influence from sources outside of the Western norm, like the Koponon Collective,

a group of women artists from South Africa who work in colorful threads

and fabric, or traditional Rwandan art, which he immersed himself in on an extended trip there.

But his biggest influence is exuberant Ashley Bryant and you're

going to hear all about that and more in this episode. But before we begin, I have to mention

this. Before I interview anyone on this podcast, I do my homework.

I read up on them and I find past interviews so that I can ask good questions that haven't

been covered ad nauseum. So it's pretty rare that I miss a major

factor in their life or work, but I missed one with Henry. Because of that in my first

question, which is always intended to be the one that eases us into a conversation,

I stepped on a landmine. If it feels a little awkward, it is because I was totally, completely unprepared for his answer. I also felt horrible for bringing

up a memory and making him uncomfortable within the first five minutes of ever talking to me. But Henry is as gracious as he is

talented. We push past the awkwardness and end up with what I think is a

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