Divine Mother of Tallinn

Posted July 22, 2014

Painted in Estonia…..in a spirit of Pure Joy

I painted this Divine Mother in the “Sex & Money Seminar” in Tallinn, Estonia a couple weeks ago…. It was a joyous undertaking, and the first time I ever put a “heart” on Her forehead. Why not? A doctor in the training bought the painting….and another gentleman in the training had me do a custom portrait of him that “captured his spiritual essence” as I saw it, in his face.

Rain Randur

Markus Ray

MARKUS received his formal art training at the Rhode Island School of Design, Cleveland Institute of Art, and Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. His mentors were the OP ART painter Julian Stanczak in Cleveland, and ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST Stephen Greene who painted in New York and taught in Philadelphia. What he gleaned in his own work from these two relationships was a keen colorist emphasis and an insistence on sacred content.