Henschel Fine Arts, Gordon Henschel

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. The Group of Seven and the French Impressionists were soon discovered and incorporated into my style. Painting direct from nature, “en plein air”, was a way of working