ABOUT
Maki Schwartz’s paintings explore freedom, movement, and inner stillness. Her work grows from everyday life, lived experiences, memories, encounters with people, and a continuing awareness of the body. Impressions from these moments gather over time and reappear as abstract forms.
Through layered gestures and an intuitive process developed without strict preplanning, her paintings evolve into compositions of rhythm, sensation, and atmosphere. Rather than describing a specific subject, the work opens a space where movement and quiet presence can exist at the same time.
Her paintings often move between subtle tensions such as motion and stillness, restraint and expansion, grounding and freedom. Instead of resolving these forces, she allows them to exist together, creating a quiet balance that feels both fluid and grounded. This duality may reflect her own nature, a longing for the freedom of a bohemian spirit while also seeking a sense of belonging and calm.
Years of physical practice including fitness, dance, and bodywork continue to shape the sensitivity and physical awareness present in her visual language. The resulting paintings are not driven by intuition alone, but by a long cultivated sensitivity to rhythm, movement, and embodied awareness.
