Passion for Communication with Nature

Painter Kim shows off admiration for nature with strong red colors dominating her canvases

'Painter Kim Mee-hee’s work attracted huge attention with bright red dominating her canvases at the Seoul International Art Fair held July 13-26 at the Seoul Art Gallery under the burning sun.
Painter Kim is in her 50s and active in Busan, the second largest city and the biggest and busiest port in Korea and Northeast Asia, both as a painter and chairman of the International Fine Arts Exchange Association.
She has a special love for nature filled with flower blossoms and chirping birds and points to the strong need of modern people for communication with nature by using passionate colors, and for simplification and emphasis on symbolic techniques. She put on exhibit many of her images reinterpreted with her own unique fine arts language to show the need for communication with nature for modern folks who live in these turbulent times.
The painter expressed her feelings under a bright bursting sun at noon in image No. 1 as if to describe nature at noon. She hopes the surprising changes in her images of nature would approach all elements that make up society and comfort them.
She shows the pleasure and happiness she gets from nature in abstract forms, more mature in feeling than the materials and subjects, with her fully filled frames displaying her passion for breathing with nature and searching for calm and comfort.
In images Nos. V and VI, viewers can find a flow of pastel tones expressing warm communicating images the painter’s pursuit for stability and harmony with power and vitality.
Kim is a graduate of Yonsei University and won a special prize at the Korea Grand Art Exhibition along with prizes at international painting exhibitions abroad including one at the Goethe Institute. She can be reached at 0l0-2552-8048. nw

(Clockwise) Image; 53 x 45.5 cm; acrylic; Image-scape; 162.2 x 130.3 cm; Acrylic; Image-scape; 162.2 x 130.3 cm; Acrylic; 2007; Painter Kim Mee-hee at work in her studio in Busan.

Painter Kim Mee-hee