Award-winning international artist Rhona L K Schonwald creates intuitive, passionate paintings that throb with dramatic sensuality. Each canvas portrays a mysterious journey of colors that resonate with their own lyricism and act as a metaphor for human relationships. Every sweeping brush stroke calls out to the innermost soul of the viewer. Colors vibrate with emotion depending on personal interpretation…passionate, joyful, serene. 

For Schonwald, the epiphany of the magical interplay of the flow of colors came during her first art class at 8 years old. It was a moment that sparked her soul. About the same time, Rhona learned of an outreach program at Johns Hopkins Hospital, which helped terminally ill children. It moved her so much that she sent a sketch and a letter to be given to one of the children. The thank-you note that she received back was from a boy about the same age as she and was so filled with appreciation that it made a profound impact. Decades later, she still has that thank-you note. These two pivotal moments occurring so closely together, at such a young age were to become the guiding lights of her life.

Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Schonwald graduated with a major in Art Education from the University of Maryland and loved teaching art at the elementary school level. She now lives and works in South Florida.  

Schonwald has been privy to many stories of healing and coincidences related to her art through the years, thus bringing together the two guiding pathways of her life—the magic of color and creation, and the gift of genuine selfless concern for the well-being of others. Schonwald’s paintings have encouraged positivity, recovery, inspired marriage proposals, and even led to finding love in her own life!

The paintings of Rhona LK Schonwald are in several permanent collections, she is a founding member of two galleries in Maryland, as well as a member of Women in the Visual Arts and National Association of Women Artists, and was past president of the Bethesda chapter of National League of American Pen Women for 5 years. Galleries and museums throughout the country have exhibited her work and she has been juried into many group and solo shows.