Christopher Henningsen

Nationality: CANADA <img style="vertical-align: bottom; margin-bottom: 3px; height:19px;" alt="ca" src="/img/icons/bootstrap4/flag/ca.png">
Date of birth: unknown date
Artistic domains:
Groups: Contemporary Canadian Artists

Name: ARTMAJEUR
Brand: ARTMAJEUR
Rating: 4.9 (12745 reviews)

Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada •

Artist (Drawing) •

Born unknown date •

In a world of dreams, memory is a gift.

In the Abrahamic traditions, there is a tension between the human instinct to create in response to divine experience and the first commandment's prohibition against representing the divine. In the middle ages a compromise was reached with the creation of 'illuminated' artwork, mostly manuscripts and stained glass windows. The idea behind an illuminated artwork was that rather than a mirror reflecting the divine, the artwork should act as a window, allowing the seeker to look through the artwork at the divine reality that inspired it.

This is what I seek to achieve with my artwork. The bold colours and interlocking shapes bring to mind a neotribal view of the world, one of spirit interweaving in a great dance. In creating artworks I first create a mood, then allow my manipulation of light and shape to create a permanent window onto that mood.