South Korean artist Yi Yi Jeong Eun’s impasto oil paintings – now on show in Hong Kong – convey nature in its many forms
- Yi Yi Jeong Eun’s abstract images use thickly laid lines of paint to show nature from its most grandiose to most intimate settings
- Her transformative moment was visiting South Korea’s Taebaek mountain, an area shockingly unfamiliar having spent her whole life in an urban environment
South Korean artist Yi Yi Jeong Eun’s oil paintings currently on show at Hong Kong’s Ora-Ora gallery are visually striking with their textured impasto – thickly laid lines of paint – and lively embellishments of varying colours and depths.
Such abstract, seemingly free-flowing images are more than just an amalgamation of elements pleasing to the eye. They are the artist’s attempt to depict the essence of nature and required hours of preparation.
“When I first started to paint nature, I used to approach it as a re-enactment. But what I really want to convey now is the internal essence of nature and not the exterior,” she says.
“I’m trying to paint the energy that the objects have and not the objects themselves.”
Going by the name Yi Yi – Yi Yi Jeong Eun is her professional name – the artist draws inspiration from nature, from its most grandiose to most intimate settings.
