Figurative sculptor using a variety of materials, including fired clay pieces, and oil paint to achieve a finish. Gained an honours degree in ceramics from Bristol Polytechnic in 1987. In the late 1980s Henry made trips to America, where he worked as assistant to West Coast artists Tony Natsoulas and Lisa Reinertson and the sculptor Robert Arneson, head of ceramics at the University of California, Davis, invited Henry to join his department in 1991 as a visiting artist. Alberto Giacometti and Lucian Freud were other influences. In 1996 Henry completed three bronze figures to mark the seventieth anniversary of the Royal British Legion and won the Villiers David Foundation Prize in 1998, the year he showed in Atlantic Crossings at the Barbican Centre.