Howard Chesner Behrens

Howard Chesner Behrens has an interest in art that dates back to his childhood, when he turned to painting to fill the hours in bed convalescing from a broken leg. Born in 1933 in Chicago, Behrens was raised in a suburb of Washington, D.C. After a stint in the military, he attended junior college where encouragement from a professor led him to explore the field of medical art. After obtaining the prerequisites and a BA from the University of Maryland, Behrens entered the Medical Arts School of John Hopkins University in Baltimore. He returned to the University of Maryland to obtain a Masters Degree in painting and sculpture. It was in 1976, after a trip to the West Coast, that Beherns reached a major turning point- the adoption of his powerful palette-knife style. Whatever his subject matter, Behrens is presenting a world of physical beauty. Bathed in sunlight and touched by sea breezes, it is a world where man and nature exist in perfect harmony. And it is a world towards which more and more collectors of fine art are drawn, discovering there, in the artwork of Howard Behrens, unlimited visual pleasures.