한차연 Han Cha Yeon II

Lost gloves by 한차연 Han Cha Yeon.

한차연 Han Cha Yeon I

I find this time after Christmas and before New Year to be like a no man's land, a welcome pause and so Korean artist 한차연 Han Cha Yeon's doodle sketches really appealed to me as they have a sense of time, space and enjoyment of life's simple pleasures.

Bonbonohri

Santa's Closet by Korean illustrator Bonbonhri makes me smile.

Yim Sunkyung II

 Love these exuberant winter illustrations by Yim Sunkyung.

Yim Sunkyung I

Yim Sunkyung's delightful happy paintbrushes, painting hearts today.

Yeom Ye-seul

A happy Monday morning to you.
I recently bought a very old collection of  vinyl 45's called 'listen to the birds' which had recordings of all sorts of bird song. It is wonderful to wake in the morning to birdsong and here is Korean artist Yeom Ye-seul's illustration of that.

Eunsil Chun II

I was looking for something Autumnal to share today and I rediscovered Korean illustrator Eunsil Chun. Eunsil's delicate works often have a feeling of autumn because of their palette but also because she often uses fallen leaves and branches to lead you through her illustrations.

Sora Kim

This illustration by Sora Kim just makes me smile, I am really enjoying exploring Korean illustration talent again.

Jung Ha Kim

Anthropomorphised toast, these wonderful toast characters by Jung Ha Kim made me very happy, have a great weekend and may your toast smile at you.

Jay-Hee Kim

Still in this year of 'Alice in Wonderland' celebrations I am discovering wonderful new interpretations. I love the colour the joyful messiness and the beautiful haphazard compositions that Jay-Hee Kim has applied to Louis Carroll's topsy, turvy dream world.

Min-Hye Jeong

Min-Hye Jeong is a Korean illustrator with many styles and media preferences. I like these multi media pieces with rich layers of media and wonderful colour.

Ji-Seung Kook

Ji-Seung Kook is a Korean illustrator I love these mixed media collages, their brightness and energy, especially the wonderful interpretation of Alice in Wonderland below. 

Yoo Na Lee

Starting the week with a charming illustration, 'Hide and Seek' by Korean illustrator Yoo Na Lee who completed her MA in illustration at Brighton University last autumn.

Jisu Kim

Jisu Kim is a Korean artist whose work was on the illustrators wall at Bologna. These images are from a book called 'Ann' It has puddles of tone, texture and speech overlapping each other but not connecting, making this work feel quite lonely.
Jisu is currently on a residency with Takt in Berlin.

Choi Yoon Young

Yoonyoung Choi is a young Korean illustrator and this work is called friend, it perfectly reflects how I feel today as the cherry tree has opened her flowers and it is jumping with the starlings I have been nurturing with a special bird flapjack of oats seeds and lard.
I like the strong blocks of colour in this work by Yoonyoung Choi combined with the very delicate line.

Park Sekyoung

Park Sekyoung's illustrations were selected for the illustrators exhibition at Bologna. These illustrations had a lovely sense of joy, I liked the minimal use of collage and different print effects, for example the solid swirls on the rug contrating with the duck wall pape and the fine drawn lines.

Inkyung Noh

What is often difficult at Bologna is that Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese and Japanese illustrators names are indecipherable and often not translated. Even when they are translated, it is rare that you will be able to find an Internet presence. So this means that there are great talents with unique illustrations that I am unable to share.
Thankfully Inkyung Noh's Mr Tutti, was in a special catalogue by KPIPA and KBBY to promote Korean picture books around the world; 'Korean picture books that bring us comfort'.
Mr Tutti is a story about an elephant trying to take water home to his family 100 drops in total, and the story of those drops of water on the journey home, it is a beautiful story with simple evocative illustrations.

Yeji Yun

Love these wintry and watery musical illustrations by Korean illustrator Yeji Yun. 

Jeon, Hee-Jeong

This field of poppies by Korean Illustrator Hee-Jeong Jeong is part of a selection of works on The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. 
I have never read this book and having come across many new interpretations lately I would like to read it and attempt my own rendition of the magic, sleepy poppy field.

Melody Park III

What do you see? I saw a cricket dancing on flowers. 
I love the way you interpret and misinterpret images especially when you see something in a thumbnail and think it is something quite different from what it turns out to be,  like a pictorial Chinese whispers. 
This piece of work is by 박태희, Melody Park, a Korean illustrator who I have featured here before.