Award-winning painter Lydia Lee has developed a signature style of highly textured oil painting inspired by the gestural and emotive nature of both Abstract Expressionism and Impressionism. Exaggerated and sensual forms emerge from her dense compositions.

LYDIA LEE

Relations with different people provide a different experience, and such relationships are either canceled or reborn. Such harmony led to the formation of inhabited cities. Space represents society without words. In the end, I tried to express the entanglement of the network I felt in that city towards order and express it like light jazz music.

Oil on canvas

Oil , Oil Primer

Painting

Discovering a complex and enjoyable life through the city landscape

City

I named it after a line from Better Call Saul, the sequel to my favorite Breaking Bad. I thought for a long time about the psychology of the protagonist who couldn't give up on the regrets and just threw it away. I am drawing this painting , I've never been there and tried to wisely decide on a line that shouldn't be crossed. So this work is more breathtaking than any other painting.
When I draw, I think of myself as a musical instrument and my hand as a bow. That is why it is most important to keep the flow uninterrupted, and the listener can sense the movement of paints flowing through the rhythm like music. The charm of my painting is the moment. So, this picture gives more life than any other picture of me.

Natural

Many of my brushstroke gestures contemplate and draw a certain structure and shape. Therefore, in this painting, you can observe the connection of certain shapes through the traces erased by the basket and at the same time admire the simple beauty.

The artists who influenced this painting are the work
[ Paradise 21,Brazil ] by Thomas Struth ,2001 and my memories of the scenery of Seoul 30 years ago

Natrual

I simply allowed the color itself to move freely in this painting. By using stick oil bar and paint at the same time, the space was organized to make it more busy. I always imagine a space, and this picture also expresses a scene in my memory. The clear sky and the holy air surround a village and try to inspire joyful energy. This painting stands out in light blue and yellow. In my paintings, I feel a difficult process as well as enjoyment. I think happiness is an emotion that disappears sooner and the sooner it passes, the more intense it is.
It resembles Joan Mitchell a lot, but differs in that it is more willing and combative than Joan Mitchell's brushstrokes. Although I was influenced by Frank Auerbach , I am different in that the process of struggle is not hidden in the paintings but is revealed.

Landscape

If you can feel the depth and endless path on a canvas-type plane, painting is no longer a painting, but a music. I thought it was beauty if I could endure it until I could hear something from what I see. This painting gave a visual perspective with the difference in density between the painted and unpainted areas. I always find landscapes in landscapes that I have experienced and remembered, either directly or indirectly, and this painting was no exception. The important thing is that even if I draw the same landscape many times over and over, it is always new when I draw. Sometimes I thought of wanting to travel around every corner of the space by removing the focus from what I was seeing. I want to find the peace between wandering and freedom.

This painting was more influenced by Impressionist expressions in my paintings. Before I started this painting, I had a great desire to express the flow made with really beautiful colors. Recently, I started painting with pink and orange to express the red sun light more beautifully. In my paintings, the flow is also a flow related to music, and it is a momentary change of form according to the change of light about the world we live in. Recently, after watching a documentary about the unique colors and patterns of animals and plants, I wanted to try the harmony of colors again. Butterflies are deep and powerful representations of life. Butterflies are not only beautiful, but also have mystery, symbolism and meaning and are a metaphor representing spiritual rebirth, transformation, change, hope and life. The Earth was created by the occurrence of incredibly surprising coincidences, and scientists have found it to be true. Even now, Einstein's relativity, In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat, the rediscovery of protons and electrons, and the discovery of new dimensions are interesting issues with as much uncertainty as painting for me. I express these movements with the emotions I have.

The chaos and struggle entangled with human desire is the reason why I paint. For me, abstraction is the truest thing that exists between the world and me. There is a great desire to make certain of the uncertain. I want my paintings to become a medium through which any part is also resolved through a beast and primitive process. After a quick brush stroke, I ran away from the painting. Because I made a promise not to regret it. I think all modern people are living in this conflict. Relationships have become more important, but they always struggle, knowing that decisions are also important.

Transmitting the senses through the artist's direct brush strokes.

Small Garden

Bitter sadness at giving up. This music was like an arrow aimed at me.
It was drawn with the intention to close my eyes and paint the landscape that comes to mind with music that slowly overcomes such sadness and gives me energy. As before, the concrete image is vague, but the will to express a landscape with bright and powerful energy was very clear and I started painting.

My answer to music expressing my passion for the unstoppable journey of life

The simultaneity and delicacy of grandeur and brutality through nature, baroque and musical rhythms influence me mainly with romantic elements, and the discoveries of my life and people's reactions to them all have these elements and elements. It seemed that there was no other way to express such a painting other than abstraction. I tried to express such a strange sense of unity more sensibly to the viewer.

Serendipity refers to an unexpected discovery, luck gained by chance, etc., and refers to a case in which a serious invention or discovery is made by complete chance. In a dictionary meaning, it also means unexpected fun, lucky discovery.
Recently, it has been widely used in the IT field. Everything has to be planned, and computers now come into our daily lives, leading to unexpected discoveries or new encounters, the loss of serendipity.
Under such an environment, I seem to be alive most while painting.
However, while painting, the moment of coincidence does not just come, and when the adventure falls on my back, it suddenly comes silently. But for me, that moment was a much more elaborate work than my daily life with IT, which was going as planned. This painting is like a scene where I first traveled to a strange place, and after having a very big adventure there, escaped there, headed home, and looked back at that place.

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