Park Yelim South Korean, b. 1997

Park Yelim is an artist who captures the lyrical and dynamic energy found in nature and transfers it onto paper using ink and sand. The artist places sand onto paper to create forms and textures through serendipity, then overlays ink on top using various techniques to visualize nature. Through the repetitive act of painting with ink on the surface of sand, Park Yelim discovers rich and varied facets of nature. Born in 1997, Park Yelim majored in Oriental painting at Ewha Womans University Graduate School. She has begun her active exhibition career in cities like Seoul and Belgium, receiving love from various collectors.

The powerful strokes by Park Yelim painted with ink are transferred to the surface where the sand is fixed and convey the artist’s strength, speed, and even the tremulous touch. These aspects of Park Yelim’s paintings spark the imagination of the dynamic energy of nature that seems ready to leap beyond the canvas. The ink that seeps through the grains of sand captures nature serenely, and the physical properties of the canvas represent the wild surface of Mother Earth. As the sand repeatedly adheres to and falls from the paper, textures, and shapes emerge serendipitously, gaining a deeper connection to the ever-changing nature.