Sooeun Baik

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.

2011-2012 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design (UAL), London

2006-2009 BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design (UAL), London

2005-2006 BA Visual Information Design, Ewha Womans University, Seoul

2016 Wimbledon Open Studios the Art show, London
2013 Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London
2012 The Art Cabin: REBECCA BYRNE, SOO EUN BAIK, GEORGE LITTLE, Cabin Gallery (the art Cabin), London
2012 Painting in Conversation, The Bussey Building, London
2010 ‘UVIAI, IVIAU’ Solo Exhibition, I.P.T. kimjinhye Gallery, Seoul
2009 Living Design Exhibition, Pod Gallery, London