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WINTER <strong>2022</strong> | 21<br />
Artist Richard Buckley is an accomplished painter<br />
and photographer.<br />
A painter propelled by passion<br />
BY ALEXANDRA RODRIGUEZ<br />
PHOTOS BY SPENSER HASAK<br />
Richard Buckley, a Boston-born award-winning<br />
painter changes his black and white paintings to<br />
abstract impressions adding color to his life.<br />
“It was all black and white and red for at least<br />
10 to 15 years and then he moved here, and it’s<br />
all been color ever since!” said Buckley’s daughter,<br />
Diana Uhrich.<br />
Buckley is a Swampscott resident who gets inspired<br />
by the beautiful views of the Atlantic Ocean<br />
directly from his apartment window. “I meditate<br />
right outside the window. The leaves, the flowers,<br />
the creatures. Oh, my God, everything! and the<br />
water,” said Buckley.<br />
Buckley has been meditating since his early<br />
20’s starting with Zen meditation, with its art<br />
equivalent of black ink on white paper, “To me, art<br />
is spiritual. I meditate and when I meditate, the<br />
paining’s happens for me. When I close my eyes,<br />
I can see a painting before it starts to happen. I<br />
meditate on nature,” said Buckley.<br />
The Swampscott artist feels physically and mentally<br />
elevated through meditation and sees nature<br />
as his higher power.<br />
In the past few years, Buckley found a higher<br />
purpose for his painting by helping his daughter,<br />
BUCKLEY, continued on page 26
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