Marco Riha Art

Originally from Austria, I started my long creative journey in Sri Lanka in the nineties. As a self-taught artist I kept on painting and travelling for some years until I found in Mexico my inspiring home base.

The visual arts fascinate me, like the possibility of screaming without making a sound, the promise of liberation and the realization of being on an artistic quest.

The majority of my images are born out of an automatic painting technique.

(Automatism refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind)

During my symbolic period, I painted with water colors and crayons on paper, followed by a long fascination with oils on canvas - personal soul searching themes, dream-like realities and various travel impressions were worked through then.

The colorDrops series mark the beginning of my abstract works mixing oils, acrylics & tints. This period includes socio-political pieces about liberty, multiculturalism, ecocide, division & unity. The shift to collective themes brought up questions about the artist's role as a moral compass.