Biography

Patrick Pyan (Henri Plisson) was born in Omaha, Nebraska in the late 1930's. He attended the University of Omaha and the University of Southern California where he obtained his MFA.  Trying to explain his kind of impressionism, Plisson says "when you look at things you tend to focus on something. It's hard to focus on this whole scene at once. The rest is there, it's not defined and that which is not defined is what you paint."

Although Henri Plisson paintings include varied subjects, landscapes, seascapes, still life and figurative, he insists that his paintings are beyond the recognizable subject. Plisson gets very animated as he gets closer to what he is attempting to define. "If a painting is too finished, too exact, it poses limitations on your ability to see it. The image freezes, limiting your illusion.  Better to paint the effect of what is there so someone observing the canvas will see the effect of what you saw, not the subject matter you saw. In essence, what you are doing in impressionism is focusing on one thing, but you are painting another. I am painting a visual echo of what I see."

Henri Plisson's technique is intuitive, and together with his extraordinary sense of color, he creates vibrant and radiant images which have become even more intense through his feeling of warmth, and element Plisson incorporates into all of his compositions. Serigraphs, as well as oils, by this modern American Impressionist master are currently represented in many important corporate and private collections.