Hyunmee Lee | Unfolding Technique into Creative Process

Instructor: Hyunmee Lee

Workshop: Unfolding Technique into Creative Process

Dates: May 13-16, 2027

Hours: 9:30am - 4pm

Level: Intermediate and Advanced

Class Size: 12

Tuition: $1750

Includes: Complimentary lunches and drinks served daily in studio

Description 

Hyunmee Lee is a former art professor of painting and drawing, and an accomplished artist whose artistic journey has spanned Seoul, Sydney, and cities across the United States over the past 40 years.

This four-day workshop focuses on learning diverse acrylic techniques as experiments for exploring creative processes. Through evolving processes of exploration and experimentation, participants will discover how technical skills can evolve into personal expression.

What to Expect

Designed for intermediate to advanced artists with experience in acrylic painting and related mediums, this course is intended for those seeking to deepen their creative practice, expand their visual language, and develop their work within a professional context.

The workshop invites curiosity, play, and a spirit of discovery, as well as the courage to explore different rhythms of making. Working on small, medium, and large canvases, artists will engage in creative exploration and artistic discovery while developing greater confidence in their individual approach to abstraction.

Reviews

"Confronting the paintings of Hyunmee Lee, what impresses is their celebration of gesture and depiction of a nearly unlimited sense of space. Abstract and intuitively painterly, her aesthetic is one of immediacy perpetually seeking its own nature. Her marks as gesture, either as broadly applied brush strokes or swiftly rendered lines applied with an oil stick or china marker, weave in and out of amorphous fields of paint. Scale is important, and in her recent paintings, the square format of her canvases (either eight foot or one foot) suggests other than merely a window view into the seen world."

—Jim Edwards (Utah’s Art Magazine): “Hyunmee Lee “ Intimacy Without Restraint”

"The gestural abstractions of Korean-born artist Hyunmee Lee balance dark and light tones, calligraphic marks, and a sense of calm. Her imagery subtly references the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucianist ideas expressed through various artistic traditions of calligraphy as well as Western-oriented painting aesthetics. She explores the ways in which contrasting visual elements create a sense of harmony."

—Santa Fe New Mexican

Website

https://hyunmeelee.com/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/hyunmeelee/?hl=en

Supply List

While I’ll provide some shared materials and mediums for experiments, it’s important that you bring the supplies noted here, as well as prepared materials (such as canvases and sketches) from your studio.

Note: The main canvas size of the current works is 36 × 36 inches, with some slightly larger pieces. However, this can be adjusted and combined with larger works if needed.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at hmleestudio@gmail.com