Henry Isaacs, plein-air painter extraordinaire, travels across the country, the Rocky-Mountain West, and abroad painting the landscape. He translates his love of nature, with an inspiring energy and passion, to paper and canvas. He has painted many of the remote areas here on the Western slope of the Colorado Rockies and the Crystal River Valley, hiking and snow-shoeing into the back country.

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 Vermont.

Says Henry, "I paint and draw from what is in front of me. It's rare that I work on a landscape away from the actual site, or from the figure away from the model. My subjects are the hills, pastures, villages, and towns of Vermont, the coasts of Maine and California, the Rocky Mountains from Idaho to Colorado, the Appalachians from Maine to Georgia, the high deserts of the Southwest, and the swamps and meadows of the Southeast. I often feel quite fortunate to be a painter, and that my landscape painting is simply an excuse to be outside in spectacular countryside. I want people who see these pictures to understand a little of what I felt when I was standing out next to a frozen pond or looking across a town field. This idea seems so connected with my being in the middle of my subject, that it feels peculiar to work anywhere else. It certainly would be easier to work in my studio, but I've never figured out how."

Works by Henry Isaacs have been placed in public and corporate institutions as well as in private collections across the country. Universities, law firms, conference centers, banks and individuals have commissioned paintings and drawings of specific locations. For more information please visit http://www.henryisaacs.com