Tag Archives: Ryan Henry

Artist’s Mini Murals Feature RGV Birds

Ryan Henry puts the finishing touches on a blue heron at Cactus Flower Interiors on South Padre Island. (Courtesy)

Plein-air artist Ryan Henry always thought of taking a brief break from his usual landscape work to try murals and create art on the sides and fronts of buildings. “I had it in my mind for years,” said Henry, a South Padre Island-based artist.  In late July, Ryan on an artistic limb, painted a great kiskadee above the entrance to his Meridian & Muse Fine Art Gallery on Padre Boulevard.…

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Journalist Transitions To Art Featuring RGV

Possible cover photo of causeway going to PI.

There was always one skill Ryan Henry had in his back pocket as he saw his journalism fade like a setting sun in one of his paintings.  The Rio Grande Valley-area newspapers that Henry so capably served for over two decades have clearly seen their better days. There was no lessening of his own interests and commitment to newspapering, but Henry grew tired of years-long struggles as an editor in…

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