Visual artist Małgorzata Maćkowiak Follow.Art Card

About me

The foundation of my painting practice is silence and calm.
Creation emerges from contemplation – a sensual observation of reality, where images arise as a play between imagination and what is seen. This state allows visions to take shape and transform into paintings – autonomous entities, recordings of an inner metamorphosis.

Art, for me, is a metaphor (from the Greek meta – beyond, and pherein – to carry), a bridge between material and spiritual experience. It enables a shift beyond a dualistic view of the world. Through sensual perception, which art both deepens and refreshes, a spiritual experience becomes possible.

The language of my painting is one of signs and symbols, color, light and darkness.
I create a personal visual system of communication – a pictorial code that can be deciphered without the need for verbal explanation. I draw on cosmogonies, philosophy, and religion, expressing my personal experience of the world. The non-representational language of abstraction hints at themes of impermanence, life, and death.

In the chaos of stimuli, I search for those that hold my attention and awaken the need for contemplation. My painting is a form of meditation – I think in images, not in words. I seek to merge a lyrical experience of the world with geometric abstraction, drawing on various philosophical and spiritual traditions.

I am drawn to an alchemical and shamanic approach to creation – one that unites matter and spirit. As Paul Klee wrote: “Art is always a metaphor for the cosmos.”