Mentors and Inspiration
“My mother will always be my greatest inspiration. She painted for no reason. She just needed to paint. She was a good painter and did one or two exceptional paintings, but the overwhelming influence if her artistic expression became the bulk of pieces she left behind.”
Pieter de Hooch: “I painted a piece as a tribute to Pieter de Hooch. A brilliant painter in his own right and there was more than a little controversy whether he had more influence over Vermeer or vice versa. That comparison to me is unimportant. Pieter de Hooch lost his vision at a young age. I painted him a house with no ceiling and a telescope so he could look outside when he could.”
Georges Braque: “The only other artist I painted a tribute for was Georges Braque because of his injury in World War I and his subsequent loss of friendship with Pablo Picasso.”
David Hockney: “For the living artist, David Hockney is a jewel and I wish he did more work.”
The Mark Reiley Collection
There is a book which is a retrospective of Reiley’s major artworks, and it shows his evolution over the last forty years. About 50% of Reiley’s works over the last forty years have wound up in this 2014 book.
The book also includes Reiley’s medical inventions as they occurred during the flow of his paintings. It loosely illustrates the two languages and how, in Mark Reiley, they’ve supported each other to create this art and these amazing medical innovations.
More of Mark Reiley’s art is available at www.RZARTs.com.
Artwork:
1) “Whatever Happened to the Starship Enterprise?” Multimedia on canvas, over a year in the making—I’m not sure how I did it.
2) Truly a study of when to finish a painting. I was about to render a bridge over the Deft River in form of a De Hooch. This far through the sketch my wife told me to stop.
3) This is part of seven-part series on wine. Multimedia on canvas. The EUA is the last part of Chateau Margaux. It is also water.
