SURREALISM NOW! presents

      MARK HENSON

SURREALISM NOW! is proud to present a MASTER of Visionary Art, MARK HENSON! A True Master of Visionary Surreal Eroticism & Satire!

"The Visionary Eroticism and Political Satire Art of Mark Henson "

Mark's sense of eroticism expresses itself in a less voyeuristic and more spiritual way than most art associated with human passion.
He is more interested in the merging of souls than the merging of organs.

It is his lifetime self-ordained duty to create a body of work that is filled with positive imagery surrounding lovemaking in a culture where sex is often associated with exploitation, violence and abuse. He sees the merging of souls as the manifestation of the cosmic design inherent in all living things. He calls upon our divinity as natural sensual beings
in harmony with our environment by depicting lovers in all forms.
He defines lovemaking as a revelation more than a thrill, respectful of the gentle interplay when all creatures are in harmony, including the elements associated with death and the infinite. In his vibrant colored oil paintings he delights in emulating the divine by bringing something out of nothing into its own sense of existence. Through these images the deepest parts of our collective soul are delivered visually imbued with the core of creation and the love of humanity. Mark views eroticism and the sex ritual as a natural and exalted state of consciousness.

Mark also paints dark side of humanity in his political satires. They are timely icons of universal fear and global concern. We are surrounded by negative input by mass media. The so-called war between the sexes plays an immense role in forming the patterns of our social interactions. How do we depict love when the most truthful loving acts are often considered evil or pornographic by politicians and religious fanatics? Yet, images of war, competition, attempts at control over each other fill our eyes. His comic approach is stirring and iconoclastic.

Born and raised in California, Mark spends part of his time living and traveling in the jungles of Costa Rica where he is creating a retreat for artists, and Upper Lake, California where he paints daily in his studio, cooks exotic food and acts as a lap chair for two cats and his sweetheart, Ms. Monti. 

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