Instagram: @mery_red_lee 1. Whatโs your story? Where are you from?I am illustrator 'Mery red' and a mother of a child living in Korea. To me, painting is like 'The giving tree'. When I was little, it was my infinite joy, and when I had a difficult time during school days, it was comforting and my only hope. I used to think that painting was just for making money at one point, but now it became my inseparable soulmate. My drawing style has changed a lot over time. In college, my artworks were dark, difficult, and heavy. I thought it was the art. When I was working for a company, I did an illustration that fits the tone and manners of the company. Then I got married and had my baby, so I took a few years off painting to focus on caring for my son. I was happy to raising him, but I felt empty. I think I really needed some time to think only for myself, not for being as a member of someone. As my child is growing up, I could have my own time and grab a brush again. There was trial and error, but I felt the preciousness and tranquility of 'my own room'. So there are many people who think alone in my artwork. Being alone is really important. So I recommend you to appreciate my paintings on a night when you are alone and to take care of your feelings more. ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ด๊ณ ์๋ ์ผ๋ฌ์คํธ ์๊ฐ '๋ฉ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋'์ด์, ํ ์์ด์ ์๋ง์์. ์ ์๊ฒ ์์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ '์๋์์ด ์ฃผ๋ ๋๋ฌด' ๊ฐ์์. ์ด๋ฆด ๋๋ ๋ฌดํํ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์์ด์๊ณ , ํ๋ค์๋ ํ์ฐฝ ์์ ์ ์๋ก์ ํฌ๋ง์ด์๊ณ , ํ๋๋ ๋๋ฒ์ด๋ก๋ง ์๊ฐํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ง๋ง, ์ง๊ธ์ ์ ์ ๋ ์ ์๋ ์์ธ๋ฉ์ดํธ์ฃ . ์ ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์คํ์ผ์ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋๋ฉด์ ๋ง์ด ๋ณํ์ด์. ๋ํ์์ ์ ์ด๋ก๊ณ ์ด๋ ต๊ณ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ ์ด์. ๊ทธ๋์ผ๋ง ์์ ์ด๋ผ ์๊ฐํ์ฃ . ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค๋๋ฉฐ ํ์ฌ์ ํค์ค๋งค๋์ ๋ง๋ ์ผ๋ฌ์คํธ๋ฅผ ํด์๊ณ , ๊ฒฐํผํ๊ณ ์์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณ์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ก์์ ์ ๋ ํ๋๋ผ ํ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ฌ๊ฒ ๋์์ด์. ์์ด๋ฅผ ํค์ฐ๋ฉฐ ํ๋ณตํ์์ง๋ง, ๋ง์์์ ์ฑ์ธ ์ ์๋ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ์ด ํญ์ ์์์ฃ . '๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์์ผ๋ก์์ ๋' ๊ฐ ์๋ ์ง์ง ๋๋ง์ ์ํด ์๊ฐํ ์ ์๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ ์คํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์์ด๊ฐ ์ปค๊ฐ๋ฉด์ ๋๋ง์ ์๊ฐ์ด ์๊ฒผ๊ณ , ๋ค์ ๋ถ์ ์ก๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ฃ . ์ํ์ฐฉ์ค๊ฐ ์์์ง๋ง, 'ํผ์๋ง์ ๋ฐฉ'์ ์์คํจ๊ณผ ํ์จํจ์ ๋๊ผ๊ธฐ์, ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ํนํ ํผ์ ์๊ฐํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ง์์. ํผ์ ์๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ง ์ค์ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ค๋กฏ์ด ํผ์์๋ ๋ฐค ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋๊ฑธ ์ถ์ฒํด์. ์์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ข ๋ ๋๋ณผ ์ ์๋๋ก. ![]() 2. Tell us about your aesthetic.I like to combine the original color with the color by feel. Just as there are major and minor keys in music, I think 'color' shows the whole mood in the painting. So one of the important processes is to make the main color and sub color in color palette. ์ฌ๋ฌผ ๋ณธ์ฐ์ ์ปฌ๋ฌ์ ์ ๊ฐ ๋๋ผ๋ ์ปฌ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ์กฐํฉ์ํค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ข์ํด์. ์์ ์์ ์ฅ์กฐ์ ๋จ์กฐ๊ฐ ์๋ฏ์ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์์๋ ์ปฌ๋ฌ๊ฐ ์ ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งํด์ค๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ฉ์ธ์ปฌ๋ฌ์ ์๋ธ์ปฌ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ปฌ๋ฌ ํ๋ ํธ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๋ ์์ ์ ์ค์ํ ๊ธฐ์ด ์์ ์ค ํ๋์์. 3. What is your favourite medium and why?I like the spectrum of the opacity and texture of gouache. I used to paint with gouache and then digital work, but I prefer digital work these days. But I want to try and challenge various media, just like David Hockney did. ๊ณผ์์ ๋ถํฌ๋ช ํจ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ์ง๊ฐ์ ์คํํธ๋ผ๋ค์ ์ข์ํด์. ์ ์๋ ๊ณผ์๋ก ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ํ ๋์งํธ ์์ ์ ํ์ง๋ง, ์์ฆ์ ๋์งํธ ์์ ์ ์ ํธํด์. ๋ ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ด๋น๋ ํธํฌ๋์ฒ๋ผ ๋ค์ํ ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ ์๋ํด๋ณด๊ณ ๋์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. 4. What is your artistic process like?I like to collect something that inspires me. Before drawing, I collect impressive movie scenes and background, charming people and object. After sketching, I read a note that had taken notes of some of the writers' poems. I choose a poem that goes with the picture, and then I make a color plan. Then, I complete the picture and upload the part of the poem together. Painting and poem have many similarities. Both are connotative, beautiful. Also, the type and depth of emotions that each person feels are different. Like poetry, my paintings are sometimes both direct and metaphorical. So when someone asks me about my artwork, I introduce it like this. 'His pen and my brush and comforting you.โ. ์ ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋๋ ์ด๋ค ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๋ชจ์ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ข์ํด์. ์์ ์ ์์ ํ์ ์ธ์๊น์๋ ์ํ ์์ ์ฅ์, ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์ํ ์ฌ์ง์ ๋ชจ์์. ์ค์ผ์น๋ฅผ ํ ํ, ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ์๋ฅผ ๋ฉ๋ชจํด ๋ ๋ ธํธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๊ณผ ์ด์ธ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฅธ ๋ค, ์ ์ฒด์ ์ธ ํค์ค๋งค๋๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํ๋ฉฐ ์์ฑ ์์ ์ ๋ง์น๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๊ณผ ์ ๊ตฌ์ ์ ํจ๊ป ์ ๋ก๋ํด์. ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๊ณผ ์๋ ๋ฎ์ ์ ์ด ๋ง์์. ํจ์ถ์ ์ด๊ณ ์๋ฆ๋ต๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ธ๋ง๋ค ๋๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ข ๋ฅ์ ๊น์ด๋ ๋ค๋ฅด์ฃ . ์์ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง๋ก ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๋ํ ์ง์ ์ ์ผ๋๋, ์์ ์ ์ผ๋๋ ์์ด์. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ์ ์ํ์ ๋ํด ๋ฌผ์ผ๋ฉด, ํ๋ง๋๋ก ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด์. '๊ทธ์ ํ๊ณผ ๋์ ๋ถ, ์๋ก๋ฐ๋ ๋น์ โ. 5. Who and/or what inspires your work?Places and moments in movies, charming people and things always inspire me. Also, in everyday life, some scenes feel like artworks in a frame. Especially when the seasons change, the colors of day and night change my mood. ์ํ ์์ ์ฅ์์ ์๊ฐ๋ค, ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ์ฌ๋ฌผ๋ค์ ์ ์๊ฒ ํญ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ์ง๋ง, ์ผ์ ์ํ ์์ ์ด๋ค ์ฅ๋ฉด๋ค์ด ํ๋ ์ ์ ์ํ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณ ๋๋๋๊ฐ ๋ง์์. ํนํ ๊ณ์ ์ด ๋ณํ ๋์ฏค ๋ฎ๊ณผ ๋ฐค์ ์ปฌ๋ฌ๋ ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ ํ๊ธฐ์์ผ์ฃผ์ฃ . 6. What role does art play in your life? How does it change the way you view the world?Everyone has their own unique point of view when they look at something. I think it's an artist who expresses it in various ways. Artistic curiosity filled my life with abundance. Especially, I feel happy when the colors of seasons, times, spaces, and landscapes blend well with the situations or people I want to draw. ๋๊ตฌ๋ ์ด๋ค ์ฌ๋ฌผ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณผ๋ ์์ ๋ง์ ๋ ํนํ ๊ด์ ์ด ์์ด์. ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋ค์ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ํํํ๋๊ฒ ์์ ๊ฐ๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์. ์์ ์ ํธ๊ธฐ์ฌ์ ์ ์ ์ถ์ ํ์ฑํ๊ฒ ํด์ฃผ์์ด์. ํนํ ๊ณ์ , ์๋, ๊ณต๊ฐ, ํ๊ฒฝ์ ์ปฌ๋ฌ๊ฐ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ ์ํฉ ๋๋ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ์ ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์ง ๋ ์ ๋ง ํ๋ณตํด์. ![]() 7. Where did you study?I majored in visual communication design at Sookmyung Women's University in Korea. I was able to major in art and concentrate on my studies thanks to my mother's full mental and economic support. Even though my father passed away in high school and had a hard time financially, my mother supported me to study art until the end and told me not to give up. Thanks to my mother, I and my younger brothers all graduated from college safely, and we still respect her. Even my husband respects my mother very much. I want to be a person who gives more to someone in any way, just like I received love and support. ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ ์๋ ์๋ช ์ฌ์๋ํ๊ต์์ ์๊ฐ์์ ๋์์ธ์ ์ ๊ณตํ์ด์. ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ์ ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ๊ณต๋ถ์ ๋งค์งํ ์ ์์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ด๋จธ๋์ ์ ํญ์ ์ธ ์ ์ ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ง์ง ๋๋ถ์ด์์. ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต ๋ ์๋ฒ์ง๊ป์ ๋์๊ฐ์๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ค์์ ๋๋, ์ด๋จธ๋๋ ๋๊น์ง ์ง์์ ์๋ผ์ง ์์ผ์ จ๊ณ ํฌ๊ธฐํ์ง ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ ํ์ จ์ฃ . ์ด๋จธ๋ ๋๋ถ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ผ๋จ๋งค๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ํ์ ๋ฌด์ฌํ ์กธ์ ํ๊ณ , ์ฌ์ ํ ์ด๋จธ๋๋ฅผ ์กด๊ฒฝํด์. ์ฌ์ง์ด ๋จํธ๋ ์ ์ ์ด๋จธ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์ฒ ์กด๊ฒฝํด์. ์ ๋ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ์ง์๋งํผ ์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ ๋ฒ ํธ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด๋๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. 8. Where do you see yourself in five years?I can't get out of the work room easily because I work on painting most of the day. So I think my communication is limited to SNS these days. After 5 years, I want to communicate more with people through various activities as well as exhibitions and illustration fairs. ํ๋ฃจ ์ค ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์์ ์ ํ๋ค๋ณด๋ ์์ ์ค ๋ฐ์ ์ ์ ๋๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋ผ์. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ์๊ฒ ์ํต์ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ SNS๋ก ํ์ ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. 5๋ ๋ค์ ์ ์๋ ์ผ๋ฌ์คํธ ํ์ด๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ ๋ค์ํ ํ๋์ ํตํด ์ฌ๋๋ค๊ณผ ๋ ๋ง์ ์ํต์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. 9. What about in ten?After 10 years, I will be in my 40s, and my child will be a high school student. As I grew up, the choice of art was natural. But when I was a student, I was busy studying for college entrance exam and art at the same time. So I want to give my child some time to think slowly about the future. After 10 years, I want to travel with my family and talk about each other's dreams and future. 10๋ ๋ค์ ์ ๋ 40๋์ผ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ์์ด๋ ๊ณ ๋ฑํ์์ด ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์. ์ ๊ฐ ์ปค๊ฐ๋ฉด์ ๋ฏธ์ ์ด๋ ์ ํ์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฌ์ ์ด์. ํ์ง๋ง ์ ์ ํ์ฐฝ์์ ์ ์ ์๊ณต๋ถ์ ๋ฏธ์ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ฅผ ๋ณํํ๋ฉฐ ์๋ง ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ๊ธ๊ธํ์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ์์ด์๊ฒ ์ฅ๋์ ๋ํด ์๊ฐํ ์ฌ์ ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. 10๋ ๋ค์ ๊ผญ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ฌํ์ ๋ ๋์, ๊ฐ์์ ๊ฟ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๋ํด ์๊ธฐํ๋ฉฐ ๋ด๋ฉด์ ๋ค์ง๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. 10. What do you hope to achieve with your art?Creativity is done by an artist, but it's completed only when someone watches it. It may be a short time, but I want to comfort and heal more people with someone's poems and my paintings. ์ฐฝ์์ ์์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ํ์ง๋ง, ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋ด์ค ๋ ๋น๋ก์ ์์ฑ์ด ๋๋ค๊ณ ํด์. ์งง์ ์๊ฐ์ผ์์์ง๋ง, ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์ ์์ ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ผ๋ก ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ํ๋ง์ ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ![]() 11. Now, tell us a little more about you as a person: what is your favourite food?I'm not a vegan, but I like vegetable dishes. Especially, I like various kinds of vegetable dishes of Korean food. Traditional Korean food is delicious, but fusion dishes and desserts are also very diverse. 'Who thought of making such delicious food? Are you a genius?โ, I have this thought. If you like various foods, I recommend you to travel to Korea! ๋น๊ฑด์ ์๋์ง๋ง ์ฑ์์ ์ข์ํด์. ํนํ ํ์์ ๋ค์ํ ๋๋ฌผ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ข์ํ์ฃ . ํ์์ ์ ํต ์์๋ฟ ์๋๋ผ ํจ์ ์๋ฆฌ, ๋์ ํธ๋ ์ ๋ง ๋ค์ํด์. '๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋จน์ ์๊ฐ์ ํ์๊น? ์ฒ์ฌ์ธ๊ฐ?' ํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ค๊ธฐ๋ ํด์. ๋ค์ํ ๋จน๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ข์ํ๋ค๋ฉด ํ๊ตญ์ฌํ์ ๊ผญ ์ถ์ฒํด์! 12. Favourite book?I usually enjoy reading various kinds of poetry. I like them to look at words and objects delicately. And I like essays pretty much, too. I'm interested in people's own language and thoughts. ํ์ ๋ค์ํ ์ข ๋ฅ์ ์์ง์ ์ฆ๊ฒจ ์ฝ์ด์. ๋จ์ด์ ์ฌ๋ฌผ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฌ์ธํ ์์ ์ด ์ข์์. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ธ์ด๋ ๊ฝค ์ข์ํ๋ ํธ์ด์ฃ . ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๊ฐ์ง ์์ ๋ง์ ์ธ์ด์ ์๊ฐ๋ค์ด ๋ฉ์ง๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์. 13. Favourite genre of music?My taste in music changes with the season. I usually listen to ukulele or indie music in spring, bossa nova or city pop in summer, and jazz in fall and winter. Now I'm listening to Chet Baker's 'But not for me'. His voice is vintage and warm, so I often listen to the album all day long on cold days. ์ ์ ์์ ์ทจํฅ์ ๊ณ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ฐ๋์ด์. ๋ด์๋ ์ฐ์ฟจ๋ ๋ ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ ์ธ๋์์ ์ ๋ง์ด ๋ฃ๊ณ , ์ฌ๋ฆ์ ๋ณด์ฌ๋ ธ๋ฐ๋ ์ํฐํ, ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ์ฌ์ฆ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ๋ฃ์ฃ . ์ง๊ธ์ 'Chet baker'์ 'But not for me'๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์์ด์. ๊ทธ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๋นํฐ์งํ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ฏํด์, ์ถ์ด ๋ ์ด๋ฉด ํ๋ฃจ์ข ์ผ ๊ทธ ์จ๋ฒ์ ๋ค์ ๋๋ ๋ง์์. 14. What are your hobbies?I like growing plants.I think plants add mood to the space and heal the mind. Especially, I feel proud when I find a new leaf while taking care of plants. Recently, I became interested in herbs. ์๋ฌผ์ ํค์ฐ๋๊ฑธ ์ข์ํด์. ์๋ฌผ์ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ํด์ฃผ๊ณ , ๋ง์์ ์น์ ํด ์ค๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์. ํนํ, ์๋ฌผ์ ๋๋ณด๋ฉด์ ์๋ก์ด ์์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ ๋๋ ์ ๋ง ๋ฟ๋ฏํ์ฃ . ์ต๊ทผ์ ์ฝ์ด์ ๋ํด ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋ง์์ก์ด์. 15. If you werenโt an artist, what would you be?In fact, my life without painting, just imagining it makes me feel lethargic. But if I have to do something else, I think I will be working on creating new things in other ways, such as planning and marketing. ์ฌ์ค, ๋ด๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ง ์๋ ์ถ์ ์์๋ง์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋ ฅํด์ ธ์. ํ์ง๋ง ๋ง์ฝ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ผ์ ํด์ผ๋ง ํ๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ธฐํ์ด๋ ๋ง์ผํ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์๋ก์ด ๊ฒ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ด๋ ์ผ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ![]() ![]() Comments are closed.
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