Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Abdul Karim or mostly known as Karim Chan is a Sydney - Australia based non-professional artist who ...
About the artist
Joined In 2024
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About the artist
Joined In 2024
(2 Followers)
Abdul Karim or mostly known as Karim Chan is a Sydney - Australia based non-professional artist who enjoy doing abstract painting on his spare times. Coming from corporate world of operational auditing in Indonesia, he migrated to Australia in search of new challenges for whatever he was offered with. He had always dealt with art and design since he was young till uni era; from designing magazines, posters or as an events' creative team. He then had his fair share of learning Graphic Design in Sydney and currently working in retail industry.
Karim only just started to get into painting in 2022. His disciplinary backgrounds and his obsession of keeping things in order shape his ways of delivering art hence his abstracts are still somehow look "controlled and neat".
Karim uses acrylic paints on different sizes of canvases together with tools such as palettes, rubber wedges, spatula, brushes and bare fingers. He got inspirations from many things: quaint interiors, street signs, rundown buildings, pop cultures to nature and many more. His highly fond of cooking might influence his creative artistry someday.
Karim really loves colors, from pastel-muted or bold and vibrant ones. Nowadays he most likely toning down the colors used o...
University of Indonesia - Bachelor of Accounting
Macquarie University - Master of Comm in Acc & Fin
Tafe - Cert III in Graphic Design