Henning recognized for recent works in oil pastel

For The Journal

Published Saturday, October 4, 2008

Landscape artist Stephen Henning, of rural Evansville, has been enjoying the limelight this fall. It was just announced that he has been unanimously juried into signature status in the Oil Pastel Society, an association of international artists who work in that medium. Signature status is an honor to artists for maintaining a high level of excellence in terms of creativity and professional accomplishments.

Henning has also been generating awareness of oil pastels as an artistic medium by teaching workshops to various art clubs around the State since November 2006. In September Henning also received an Honorable Mention in the Oil Pastel Society's annual members-only show.

Coincidently, his entry in the online exhibit was one of the six originals he created late in 2007 for the new oncology department at Douglas County Hospital.

This was also the second year one of Henning's oil pastels was juried into the American Impressionist Society's highly competitive annual show, an event dominated by oil painters and water colorists. (In 2007 he was the first artist to have an oil pastel accepted into this juried exhibition.)

This year's entry, titled "Afterglow," will be part of the exhibit at the Coda Gallery in Palm Desert, CA, later in November. "One of the fringe benefits of being in the AIS Show," Henning stated, "is to be interviewed in American Art Collector, a national art magazine that's doing an editorial spread about the AIS."

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