Books by Ronald Q Henriques

Paintings by outsider artist Ronald Henriques. This is first and foremost a book of extraordinary paintings and details from them. Paintings and painter challenge preconceptions about 'outsider art', 'art therapy', 'schizophrenia', solipsism and audience. The art pays as much attention to such terms as a migratory fish does to terratorial waters. The Untamed Sea of the title is perhaps the ocean of yearning and resilience of creativity and fragmentation, and ultimately the unboundaried reach of human hope and imagination. As Dubuffet commented, 'Art is at its best when it forgets its own name, it loves to travel incognito...'