As an artist, it is significant yet the most difficult challenge to overcome, coming up with one’s own style that has its personality and uniqueness. Then, how am I going to differentiate my work from other work in the field? I am sure other artists also have considered this question a lot.
As a representational and landscape artist, I believe there are already numerous amazing landscape painters who define beauty of nature. However, how people approach and consider nature, as a subject matter is definitely different from every person because they all have different background. Broadly, my interest is to paint the scenery while bouncing off the boundary between representational and abstract. Most importantly, rather than attracting viewers with location of an image within the painting, I hope the viewers to be more curious about the materiality of its own.
I expect oil and acrylic to be major materials in my work. When using oil paints, I experiment with other mediums a lot, especially in order to have a thick paint. Before going into the canvas, I try to make many studies as possible as I can. That way, it is easier to finalize the composition that is working in overall picture plane. Doing all the experimentation is definitely time consuming, especially when it is mixed with mediums (take longer to dry). Some materials might or might not work the best but as I am studying these, I believe it is helping me in a way to make my style eventually. Hopefully, endless experimentation and process will give me an answer to my questions.