MARK RICHARDS NEEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS

Mark J. Richard’s Spirit paintings are a combination of mind work and body work; thought and action, color and expression. These paintings are darker emotions of the soul: painful emotions of doubt.

Mark believes painting is first and foremost the artist’s expression of self within the context of the natural environment. Ephemeral motifs of faces are an attempt to quantify and to understand the spiritual relationship of the artist to and from beyond the veil, between and among these emotional spaces.

Mark J. Richard’s Spirit painting occupies a vital place within the D E L I R I U M story, bridging the divide we speak about between the conscious and subconscious, the physical and the spiritual. Mark’s process merges mind and body—thought transformed into movement, emotion into gesture—resulting in works that expose the darker contours of the inner self. Through layered colors and fleeting human skull forms, he explores what we all wonder about, afterlife, doubt, faith, and the unseen energies that pass between the material world and what lies beyond.

Jackson Pollock’s splatter, or “drip,” style revolutionized modern art by translating motion and emotion directly onto canvas using movement. His technique—pouring and flinging paint in rhythmic, physical gestures—embodied a raw psychological intensity, making the act of painting itself an expression of thought and energy.

You can say Mark Richards paintings act as moments of meditations on presence, revealing the delicate tension between introspection and surrender that defines the psychological essence of the exhibition. —Juniper Rag

Envy, 21 x 17 in., oil on linen $850.00