Bio

Henry Washer was born and raised in Petaluma, California, a small town 40 miles north of San Francisco. Growing up Washer was constantly surrounded by artists, burning man enthusiasts and crafts people of all types.  Learning building and artistry skills from a young age.  His older sister, a prolific artist herself died tragically when he was 16.  An event that still influences his work today.

When Washer was 21 he dropped out of junior college to finish his first solo show of mechanical kinetic wood carvings.  Using the money from this he travelled to Europe where he ended up enrolling in school at the Royal Academy of Art in Ghent, Belgium to pursue a career in sculpture.  There he learned classical sculpting along with modern theory.

Upon his return to the states in 2016, Washer worked as many jobs as he could, to learn as much as possible, including stone masonry, metal fabrication and large scale mold making.  

Washer found himself working on numerous Burning Man pieces until 2018 when he endeavored to make his own.  The challenges from bringing large scale art over the formidable Sierra Mountains were countless.  Fundraising, building, sculpting and casting, T-Shirt designing, transportation, packing and planning a functioning camp with enough food for a whole crew, crew management and how to deal with the extreme environment of the desert, are all critical skills needed to bring a Burning Man project to completion.  Skills Washer now brings to all projects, on and off the Playa.  

Washer continues to learn new skills and finds ways to implement them into his broad vision of what art can be.