Glenn Hendrick

Archipelago ⏤ Contemporary Art of the Salish Sea

A cultural exchange between the Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada, and the San Juan Islands of Washington State, USA. In collaboration with the San Juan Islands Museum of Art, and Salt Spring Arts.

Artist ⏤ Glenn Hendrick

Everything about living here influences my work, especially of course my landscape work. Before I moved to San Juan Island, I had only ever lived in large cities with flat topographies.  The only way to get a view from any height was from a tall building or a freeway overpass.  Living on the islands, I am endlessly fascinated by the stacked and layered perspectives that are found amongst these little sea mountains.  From the ferry window, they seem to shift across each other like the backdrops of a stage being set for the next scene.  Steep hillsides provide vantages for observing great depth, but they also offer flattened and compressed perspectives that remind me of tapestries, or 15th-century European landscapes, or Japanese Ukiyo-e landscapes.  And of course, the crows and beasts and trees and flowers of this region all make their way into my work at various times.