Monica Maja Richardson

About

Monica Maja Richardson is a London-based Italian artist whose work emerges from intuition, emotion and the quite dialogue between colour and feeling. A self-taught abstract painter, Monica explores the space where spontaneity meets reflection, translating fragments of memory, mood, and movement into layers of vibrant expression.

Statement

Painting found me before I fully understood what I was looking for. After years working in television, I needed something that was entirely my own — a language that didn't belong to a script or a camera or anyone else's vision. Colour had always been the way I experienced the world most intensely; painting made that visible for the first time. I work instinctively. I don't plan a composition — I follow the painting, and it takes me somewhere I couldn't have reached by thinking alone. The canvas becomes a conversation between what I feel and what emerges. Sometimes the work surprises me. That surprise is what I live for. My Italian roots, my twenty-something years in London, the beauty I find in movement, in music, in human connection — all of it feeds into the work without being stated. Abstract painting allows me to hold all these things at once without having to resolve them. Emotion doesn't always have a name. Colour does. What I want most is for someone to stand in front of one of my paintings and feel something shift — a moment of joy, of energy, of aliveness. If the work gives someone that, even briefly, it has done what I set out to do.

Recognition

Commissions

I take commission for small and large abstract artworks