Meet Henry Long

Henry Long is a painter, writer, poet and photographer. Born in 1962 and raised outside of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, Henry displayed impressive artistic abilities from an early age. He was awarded the Pennsylvania Governor’s School of the Arts Scholarship at 14, and began taking college level art classes that same year under the mentorship of Berenice D’Vorzon at Wilkes University.

Working in a highly personalized style combining figurative, mythic, cultural and alchemic imagery, Long uses a variety of mixed media to bring forth his poetic, wry and emotionally charged visionary pieces. He has shown in hundreds of one-man exhibits and group shows, and his works are displayed in numerous private and corporate collections.

He has given art instruction, and has taught "Experiencing Art Through Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth” for Wilkes University, the Delaware Art Museum and the Grand Opera. He is currently offering Experiencing Art classes and “Personal Transformation and Dickens’ Christmas Carol” at the Grand Opera in Wilmington Delaware. He has designed many covers for CD’s, book jackets, posters and T-shirts, and has also written extensively about that fellow Cartographer of the Heart, musician and artist Daniel Johnston. He is the recipient of many grants and awards for his painting, works on paper and photography, as well as the Delaware Division of the Arts 2002 Individual Artistic Fellowship Grant as an Emerging Professional in Poetry. He has given hundreds of public readings of his writing and poetry, and has won many slams, although he no longer competes.

He continues to create full time along with his wife Emma Etain Long, also a painter, in Bellefonte, Delaware. They have four pet mice, Lavender, Claudius, Crispin and Arrow. Two brand new chapbooks of his poetry are now available in a signed limited edition. "Goat Love" and "(y) A Collection of Poems From the 1992-2007 Chapbooks." are $10.00 each. Please email Henry at ripefate@hotmail.com if you would like to inquire about making a purchase. A collection of short stories will be published in 2008.