Devon Rose Henderson grew up in Roxboro on the West Island, near Montreal and spent early years visiting her Grandmother's Farmhouse in New Glasgow in the Laurentien Mountains of Quebec near where the picturesque Achigan River flows onward towards the St. Lawrence Seaway. The old wooden barn, the scented, whispering pine forests, innumerable birds and tea coloured river flowing merrily through the granite boulders instilled in her a true love and reverence for nature, Canada's history and the rural landscape. She believes her reverence for landscape painting sprang from those early experiences.
Born to a musical, creative and artistic family, a love of the arts was fostered very early, with Devon learning about Singing, Music, Theatre, Literature, Dance, Crafts, Garden Design and Fine Arts from her parents and her very talented older siblings.
She studied both music through the McGill Conservatory of Music and also the Arts , beginning with courses at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, then on to study Graphic Arts and Illustration at Dawson College, then Fines Arts and art history at Laurier University and Guelph University. After completing her Bachelors Degree in Studio Arts, she furthered her University education with a professional degree, a Bachelor of Education with a Fine Art's Teaching Specialization for Grade 4 to Grade 12 levels.
She has also taught adult classes at Dundas Valley School of Art and the Burlington Art Gallery for many years, before focusing on teaching High School Visual Arts Teaching, mainly in the Toronto area.
She is now a full time Musician/ Singer-Songwriter and Fine Artist living in Prescott, Ontario, Canada close to the St. Lawrence River Seaway. She is a practitioner of High Realism, with her main influences being Robert Bateman for attention to detail, Vermeer for attention to light, and Andrew Wyeth for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and the beauty of the landscape's textures and subtle colours.
"I view landscape painting and the land itself as a living, breathing thing, which has a spiritual quality, which can be seen, if one has the eyes to see"
Born to a musical, creative and artistic family, a love of the arts was fostered very early, with Devon learning about Singing, Music, Theatre, Literature, Dance, Crafts, Garden Design and Fine Arts from her parents and her very talented older siblings.
She studied both music through the McGill Conservatory of Music and also the Arts , beginning with courses at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, then on to study Graphic Arts and Illustration at Dawson College, then Fines Arts and art history at Laurier University and Guelph University. After completing her Bachelors Degree in Studio Arts, she furthered her University education with a professional degree, a Bachelor of Education with a Fine Art's Teaching Specialization for Grade 4 to Grade 12 levels.
She has also taught adult classes at Dundas Valley School of Art and the Burlington Art Gallery for many years, before focusing on teaching High School Visual Arts Teaching, mainly in the Toronto area.
She is now a full time Musician/ Singer-Songwriter and Fine Artist living in Prescott, Ontario, Canada close to the St. Lawrence River Seaway. She is a practitioner of High Realism, with her main influences being Robert Bateman for attention to detail, Vermeer for attention to light, and Andrew Wyeth for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and the beauty of the landscape's textures and subtle colours.
"I view landscape painting and the land itself as a living, breathing thing, which has a spiritual quality, which can be seen, if one has the eyes to see"
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