Leah Lim

Leah Lim is a contemporary artist based in San Diego, California.

Her ongoing series, Light Note, began from a desire to record the passage of time through the language of light. Rather than depicting specific events or personal stories, Lim focuses on the traces that experiences leave behind. She sees life not as something defined by a single choice, but as a continuing process of choosing, reflecting, revising, and building upon what came before. Repetition and layering are more than visual techniques in her work. They reflect her belief that life gains depth through the gradual accumulation of experience.

Light plays an essential role in the work. Lim does not paint light as a subject. Instead, she uses it as a language to reveal what time has left behind. As light shifts or the viewer changes position, textures and patterns appear, disappear, and change. The painting is never completely fixed, but continues to reveal itself through light and movement.

Black and white carry their own meanings within Light Note. Black is not the color of darkness or loss. It represents accumulated life, holding experience, memory, reflection, learning, and change. White represents beginnings, possibility, and the time yet to come. Rather than ...

BFA in Visual Design, Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea
Early exposure to painting through her mother, a painter.
Continued independent study and practice in painting.