my artist bio/statement
well, here is my version, took me all afternoon and then some...
Sophia Lee
I graduated from F.I.D.M with a degree in fashion design and Art Center College of Design with a degree in fine art/painting. Since then, I have worked in the various industries doing design and illustration work, from clothing to book covers to skin care design to patterns for home and stationary products. Recently, I became a freelance designer, and this allows me the freedom to travel more; I am a slow wanderer. Through traveling and absorbing things around me, I realized that I’ve come full circle with myself and art as one entity.
The patterns I create are not sketched or pre-planned, very much as it is done in Chinese brush paintings. Each time I’d randomly pick out a brush pen and select a point on the paper and just allow my hand to start drawing. After the first few strokes, I then see where this will lead me as a whole composition, turning the page as I go to draw and fill it up. I want that it can be a different image from each side of the page, not settling into just one side up. I want the owner of each image to choose how to see it.
Although that I allow a lot of random factors into my artwork, I believe that the everyday life is my meditation that inspires and abstracted into this series of patterns. Each time it will evolve and change and flow onto the paper.
Sophia Lee
I graduated from F.I.D.M with a degree in fashion design and Art Center College of Design with a degree in fine art/painting. Since then, I have worked in the various industries doing design and illustration work, from clothing to book covers to skin care design to patterns for home and stationary products. Recently, I became a freelance designer, and this allows me the freedom to travel more; I am a slow wanderer. Through traveling and absorbing things around me, I realized that I’ve come full circle with myself and art as one entity.
The patterns I create are not sketched or pre-planned, very much as it is done in Chinese brush paintings. Each time I’d randomly pick out a brush pen and select a point on the paper and just allow my hand to start drawing. After the first few strokes, I then see where this will lead me as a whole composition, turning the page as I go to draw and fill it up. I want that it can be a different image from each side of the page, not settling into just one side up. I want the owner of each image to choose how to see it.
Although that I allow a lot of random factors into my artwork, I believe that the everyday life is my meditation that inspires and abstracted into this series of patterns. Each time it will evolve and change and flow onto the paper.
