"Richard Boike is one of those painters that not only create a world, but also give that world its own atmosphere; an atmosphere that seems to come from a blending of discordant elements: expressionistic distortions, social consciousness, magic realism, desolation in the manner of Edward Hopper, metaphysical art in the manner of De Chirico, all duly filtered through the personality of the artist himself.

It is because of this composite ambience that his paintings, which are inspired by the harsh social reality of the Brazilian Northeast, gain a greater, universal meaning. In a large part of this globalized world there is the same isolation, the same silence, the same deafening revolt that misery and ignorance impose on people; people lost among somber colors in a landscape that excludes them.

We do not see the vision of a foreigner dazzled by the exotic, but the perspective of an artist who does not deceive himself nor does he wish to deceive others."

Marco Polo Guimarães, Continente Magazine, Recife, PE, Brazil