The Pursuit of Happiness 001

"The Pursuit of Happiness 001" has been exhibited at Gallery Casa Del Arte, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Feature in ART MUSE Express 2025. https://artmusexpress.com/richard-solstjarna-emotion-force-and-the-space-between/

Excerpt from ART MUSE Express 2025. "Richard Solstjärna: Emotion, Force, and the Space Between."

"His work isn’t just visual—it feels like a transmission. His paintings are raw, physical expressions of thought, emotion, and spirit.

You feel it rather than understand it. The energy feels like it’s pushing, pulling, trying to break through. But that pressure—that intensity—is what gives the painting its voice.

Whether or not we talk about it, everyone is in some kind of pursuit. Solstjärna turns that pursuit into paint—dense, vibrant, unstable. He’s not offering conclusions. He’s holding up a mirror.

Richard Solstjärna doesn’t make paintings to please. He makes them to connect. And not in a surface way. His work is about what lives underneath: the push and pull of being human, the weight of hope, the raw edge of feeling.

The Pursuit Of Happiness 001 captures that beautifully. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t beg. It just pulses with life—and waits for you to feel it." - Seraphina Calder