Marco Riha Art

Born and educated in Austria, I landed a job as an international tour guide - never to be seen again at my university, where I studied law.

In 1995, fascinated by stunning Sri Lanka, I took a year off to paint, the beginning of a long creative journey.

As a self-taught artist, I only learned much later, that what I am doing, is Automatism:

'In art, automatism refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material

from the unconscious mind as part of the creative process.' (Tate Art Term)

After traveling and painting for some years I found in Mexico my creative home base.

I experimented with different mediums, including a long fascination with oils on canvas, my symbolic period,

filled with therapeutic releases, inner and outer travel logs and first screams in color.

The colorDrops series from 2014 mark the beginning of my abstract works in mixed media. This current period includes socio-political pieces about liberty, multiculturalism, ecocide, division and unity, raising the age-old question about the artist's role as a moral compass.

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