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Henrijs Preiss paints most unusual works that are at once both old and new, exotic and familiar to all. Having studied in the Academy system in Latvia and coming from a family of Latvian and Russian artists, Henrijs has an in-depth knowledge of the compositional and spatial structures used in the creation of medieval religious icons. Drawing on these pre-Renaissance composition methods, he then combines them with 20th century abstract painting and cabalistic symbolism, resulting in works that are unusually balanced for abstract paintings. They travel a long time line, speaking across cultures to the sensation of hidden meaning through their motifs, and exuding all the compacted power of ancient icons but in a contemporary painted work.
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