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Maki Yamaguchi
Maki Yamaguchi is an ultra-talented painter capable of conjuring up portraits full of feeling and personality, while being equally adept at creating landscapes and cityscapes teeming with life. She paints with verve, conscious of how each detail affects her illustration, but most of all she creates with great sensitivity to the overall feeling the image conveys.
“Every image is an experiment and a result of my efforts to balance two ends of a spectrum,” Maki explains. Working in natural media such as watercolour, acrylic, coloured pencil or crayon, she develops an image by drawing and painting, weighing up the contrasts – light and dark, bold and fine, tight and loose, motion and stillness… Her dedication to finding that balance has led to a slew of awards and a client base that includes some of the biggest publications in America.
Born in Japan and now based in Queens, New York, art is in Maki’s blood. Her father and grandfather were both painters. They’re influences for sure, alongside artists like Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso and David Hockney, and illustrators including Carson Ellis, Laura Carlin and Sydney Smith. Maki loves folklore and fantasy, and is equally fascinated by the natural world. It’s another example of her balanced outlook.
Maki is a traditionally trained artist with a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.
