As a young emerging Korean artist, her work is full of positive energy, one can easily find a restful or vibrant image surrounded by her works. Meeyoung’s abstract paintings that adapt “wet-on-wet” painting technique that covers the surface with fresh new paints before the previously administered layers are fully dried off. She intuitively captures a moment of sensations and trivial emotions in daily life, feelings of promenade, passing landscapes seen through the window of a train carriage, scent and taste of food, fresh breeze, which awake viewers’ memories and senses.

Meeyoung has been developing her work into “Pictorial Sculpture,” or “Sculptural Painting.” The way she applies thick paint and scrapes it off reveals “sculptural contemplation.” The thick matière sticks out from the edge and surface of canvas brings the space into the painting. Her painting invites three-dimensional space into the two-dimensional flat canvas; viewers can experience the coexistence between the flatness of painting and expanded rhythmical gestures in all directions as they walk along the artwork.

The artist recalls a moment in London, when she was in a graduate program. "At that time, I was struggling with uncertainty of the future and difficult circumstances. I burst into tears and closed eyes for a while. When I opened my eyes, I deliberately started to imagine what scenery I would have liked to see - fruit trees planted in the prosperous soil, fresh water, and people who just harvested those fruits smiling... I suddenly felt happy again, started to paint again right away.”

According to Meeyoung, she thinks that an artwork must deliver a certain impression, intense message, and echo. A painting gets meaningful when it is arresting, that makes viewers to take a moment in front of it.

She applies multiple layers of gesso on the canvas; this allows paints to be settled smoothly and draw grid with pencil and ruler. It is a psychological process for her as a passage, that leads her to enter into a different dimension. As a symbolic act, Meeyoung consider the space where she exists and the world in the painting as a door or window. During this process, she imagines ambiance, brushstroke, and colors which will fill out the canvas and decide brush and color she will use. Finally, she applies oil paint on the canvas following her abstract thoughts and plans.

Meeyoung Kim holds BFA and MFA in Korean Painting in Ewha Womans University, in Seoul.  After that, she studied Painting, at the Royal College of Art, in London.  Her academic background can explain why Asian philosophy, technique, and colors are revealed in the process while she works with oil paints. Her works are a part of the collection of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Art Bank, Gwacheon, Korea and The Work Project Global, Singapore.