Presence Painting

b. 1986 [Seoul, Korea/ Lives and Works in London] The dreamlike landscapes created by Korean artist Sooeun Baik beckon the viewer to abandon their surroundings and step inside this magical scene. Painting from her own imagination and what she finds inspiring in nature, her work is an adventure through the interwoven internal and external landscape. Sooeun’s work focuses predominantly on the medium of watercolour, gouache and acrylic paints to achieve her desired pieces. Following her MA course at Chelsea, Sooeun decided to focus on stick to painting the landscapes, stemming from her interest in the medium’s translucent, fluid consistency, relating back to her relationships between her inner and outer spaces. The landscape becomes a metaphor for integrating these internal and external spaces in association with the finished painting’s material property. Through an abstraction of her perspective, tone and colour, she releases a surrealistic, fantastical environment that appears if from a transient, dream world.