Né à Paris à la fin des années 50 au sein d’une famille passionnée par la mer, l’histoire navale et la voile, Henohut a très tôt trouvé dans le dessin le moyen de fixer une idée, une impression ou un souvenir.
Les crayons et pinceaux ont été laissés de côté pendant de nombreuses années au cours desquelles il s’est installé le long de la Méditerranée, en Ligurie puis dans le pays niçois où il a fondé une famille. Sa vie professionnelle dans les services financiers lui ont permis de retrouver la mer au travers de la marine marchande et de suivre la construction de grands navires.
Henohut a aussi beaucoup navigué sur des voiliers et a participé à de nombreuses courses et régates en tant qu’équipier, skipper ou commissaire bénévole.
Puis, au terme d’un concours de circonstances, sa famille et lui sont tombés sous le charme d’un jardin de Saint-Paul abritant une maison sous le lierre et la vigne vierge. Le garage est devenu atelier et la mer s’est surprise à monter jusque sous les remparts de son merveilleux village.
Accueilli avec bienveillance au sein du Cercle des Artistes de Saint-Paul de Vence où il côtoie d’autres artistes aimant partager leurs passions et leurs techniques, Henohut expose quelques une des œuvres réalisées au cours des dernières années et donne désormais libre cours à ses idées. Outre la mer et les marines, il a réalisé quelques carnets de voyage, des nus, des intérieurs et, plus récemment, des sculptures , mobiles et installations.
Born in Paris in the late fifties, Hénohut de Zhery has early begun drawing and painting before starting a career in banking where he has had the chance to specialize for a while in shipping finance. Hénohut (pronounce N-O-UUH) has lived on the Italian and French Riviera where he settled thirty years ago.
He has a wonderful wife and two children who have already left the family nest. He is a keen yachtsman who has sailed and raced in the Mediterranean and on both sides of the Atlantic. The Stockhölm archipelago in the Baltic and the Chesapeake Bay are waters he does not know yet and where he would like to head his bow.
He has almost read everything available about sea, ships and sailors and has a real respect for sea people, their wisdom and humility. He likes any kind of boat, from navy ship to old harbour tug but remains fascinated by sail power. Hénohut has also a passion for History despite the fact it was mainly written… onshore! He also likes Nineteenth Century and Belle Epoque architecture, old stones, and warm interiors. The values he appreciates at his contemporaries are ethics, curiosity, originality and humour.
In the early nineties, he resumed drawing and painting using different techniques from pencil and watercolors to a mix of digital works where he likes to “dig” the sea on his own snapshots before adding on some more conventional brush and charcoal works. Beside the Marine themes, he also paints landscapes, interiors and nude. Asked about his favourite Marine artists he replied they are uncountable although William Turner, Léon Haffner, Marin Marie, Auguste Mayer, Carl Locher and most of the Impressionists would definitely be in his shortlist.
When drawing boats, he tries to respect the "physics" of what he observed while sailing, that is the coherence between the wind, the sea, the light and the sails.
Many of his friends told Hénohut he ought to sell part of his collection which begins to be respectable.
And so it is....!
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