Mark Henderson
Mark is from the Wai-wai-kum
Band of the Kwakiutl people at Campbell River, B.C. He was born in 1953
and is deeply involved in the art and culture of his
community. Mark began painting at the age of eleven and was taught by his father Sam Henderson who was originally from Blunden Harbor. In the summer Mark works as a commercial salmon fisherman off the west coast of Vancouver Island and in the winter he paints. He has a unique style related to the old art of the Kwakiutl people, noticeably seen in the carvings of Mungo Martin, Henry Speck and in the numerous carvings in and around Alert Bay, B.C.
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