Yong Sook Kim-Lambert is deeply interested in the key challenges raised by modern art, such as the interplay between flatness, space, and color. With this in mind, she combines figurative and abstract environments by creating a certain ‘flatness’ in the interaction of the figural form with an abstract handling of color. She applies various transparent watercolor layers on toned paper. Then she often utilize music references, such as music notes to visually convey the impact music has on her. “I sketched my ‘idea’ on colored paper and I added watercolor, acrylic and choral line all the way finished. I use these methods, because I like tangible effect of texture and tonal qualities of half-erased charcoals and sub-colors that show thought to built a certain figurative flatness”. Even though ‘figuration’ has since reentered her art, a lot of her work is still done in spontaneous and quick strokes. It even seems as though all the forms in her paintings represent human figures even if the subject matter is a landscape or a still life. She concentrate on watercolor and mixed media drawing on paper and acrylic on paper and on wood panel.

Yong Sook Kim-Lambert was born in the Republic of Korea. She earned a B.A in Fine Arts at Hong-Ik University in Seoul. She met her Canadian husband in 1987 and became a Canadian citizen in 1995. She has since traveled to many countries and shared her time between Asia, Canada, and the USA, where she taught painting and drawing at the Grier School (Pennsylvania) from 2001 to 2017. She moved back to Canada permanently in June of 2017. She has participated in exhibitions in Korea, Japan, China, Canada and the USA. Her work is represented in private and permanent public collections, among which: Société des Loteries du Québec (Loto-Quebec), Canadian Postal Museum (Canadian Museum of Civilization), House of Commons (Parliament Hill, Ottawa); Musée Laurier (Victoriaville), Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Pennsylvania, USA).

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