This way

Schoorel cycles from home to her studio. A stretch of canal is reflected in the water. Sunlight falls on a stone, on flowers along the bank. Rubbish, litter. Each time she cycles this route, she sees something different, or sees the same thing differently.

What she captures of the city remains in motion. A patch becomes a stone, a few strokes a flower. Or something else. The image does not reveal itself all at once. The longer you look, the more appears, and disappears again.

Maaike Schoorel (NL 1973) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam) and the Royal College of Art (London). Her paintings have been acquired by museums and collectors worldwide, and have been exhibited at the Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Kunstmuseum Den Haag (The Hague), Martin Gropius Bau Museum (Berlin), Museum Kunstpalast (Dusseldorf), Hayward Gallery (London), Saatchi Gallery (London), Fondazione Memmo (Rome), LA County Museum (Los Angeles), CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (San Francisco), Museum MDD (Belgium), Sydney Biennale amongst other venues. She recently returned to Amsterdam, having spent many years living in London, New York and Rome.