isart gallery
About the Artist
My personal creative technique involves loading paint into paint bags and painting in a manner similar to a pastry chef piping cream. The rhythm of my hand's movements drives my painting process, emphasizing the unpredictable power of subconscious instinctual painting. I juxtapose control and unpredictability during the painting process, placing expected and unexpected results on the canvas. I refrain from using textual explanations to limit the viewer's subjective consciousness of the artwork's imagery.
My personal creative context revolves around experimental research with acrylic paint as the base medium. Initially, I experimented by orderly squeezing paint from bags onto the canvas. Subsequently, I broke away from traditional forms, allowing paints to naturally blend through squeezing, and finally, I reversed the original creative logic to present the artwork on canvas.
Using acrylic paint as a medium for personal creation stems from the belief that every creator must find materials that represent them and understand their characteristics to leverage their unique qualities. Growing up in a small family within an environment dominated by rapid economic development and extensive industrial exports, my daily surroundings were defined by the rhythmic operation of machines in factories and the manual assembly and packaging of products by workers. In such an environment, efficiency in producing quality goods was paramount. Plastic products were among the most mass-produced items in factories.
Similar to writing poetry, the act of creation involves using rhythm to create an atmosphere, immersing viewers in it. I see painting as a way to express overflowing love onto the canvas, where the artwork acts as a mirror reflecting a part of myself, a gift to loved ones, allowing them to feel the love I wish to express without words.
From the inception, the 259 days of gestation, to giving birth to a creation uniquely mine through my own body, I persisted in creating despite the pain and hardship of pregnancy. For me, "creation is an everyday part of life." Drawing serves as a remedy, separating the troubled mind and painful body from the realities of life. Embracing unpredictability in expected ways yields unforeseen results, offering freshness in the creative process and accumulating painting experience. I believe creation is akin to nurturing an emotional bond with your artwork, akin to maintaining a relationship, bringing surprise and freshness to calm days.
Elizabeth Langreiter’s unique mixed media aerial paintings are a delightful escape from reality into a playful and joyful world.
Her art often evokes the viewer to experience happy flashbacks to a favourite time or place through a sophisticated combination of pattern, colour and interesting textures. Elizabeth’s paintings are now capturing the hearts of collectors all over the world.
Driven by a passion to create and to spread a bit more joy in the world, Elizabeth calls on her inner child to recreate happy memories of long carefree days growing up in beautiful sunny Australia swimming, sun baking and enjoying the outdoors with family and friends.
Her most popular paintings are created with little 3d people who are hand sculpted on the canvas with many layers of fine, intrinsic detail. One delighted collector said upon discovering her art in Hong Kong that she “Felt happy and joyful immediately, like I were in the painting, full of sunshine, cooling off in the sea, feeling the gentle breeze on my face, with cheers and laughter all around”. “and “I feel like I am in a delicious Candy store” proclaimed another delighted fan.
Whilst Elizabeth comes from an artistic family and she was always encouraged to paint, she didn’t feel any desire to create until 2008 when a freak head injury suddenly ignited her previously undiscovered talent and led to an incredible passion and desire to paint. Elizabeth was fearless in her approach to creating and quickly developed the confidence to continually experiment. It was this love of experimentation has led to her truly unique style of art. People are always saying they have never seen anything like her art before with a huge beaming smile on their face.
2016 was the year Elizabeth was discovered by a panel of art experts including Ben Quilty and Roslyn Oxley to be selected as one of the top 100 emerging artists in Australia and invited to participate in The Other Art Fair Sydney. Elizabeth has been invited to exhibit seven times with The Other Art Fair throughout Australia and was named one of the best sellers in March
2019 and Dec 2020 one top selling artist for Saatchi Art Online Studios.
In 2019 Elizabeth exhibited outside of Australia for the first time at the Asia Contemporary Art Show HK in March and the Affordable Art Fair HK in May, which caused great interest and excitement in Hong Kong. Following her success at these shows, Elizabeth has been offered many exhibition opportunities in Korea, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Los Angeles.
Her paintings are now in collections in the USA, Austria, Canada, China, Croatia, UK, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Israel, Lebanon, Singapore, Slovakia, Switzerland, Thailand, New Zealand and Australia.
Kim, Seok Jung is an artist based in Yongin, South Korea. He is the mainstay of Korean art industry and also a representative artist of Shanghai art societies. He is well-known for his surrealistic description of objects in his paintings with his unique coloring technique.
Starting art with strong ambition and passion, Kim used to try to express somewhat heavy, large, and abstract topics such as history or culture. As he turned late 30, he started to look at objects in his daily life and himself. He is inspired mainly by objects or animals he can see easily in our daily life. He is also inspired often by traditional still life paintings. On his canvas, he describes those objects in his perspective. The shapes, balance, and colors of the objects in his paintings are what he felt at the moment when he sees or imagines the objects. He internalizes and reinterprets the visual information in his way.
Kim is famous for his own coloring technique. When he studied in Paris, he started to have interest in colors and try to develop his own coloring technique. Instead of artificially or intentionally mixing colors, he uses diffusion of colors on paper to mix colors with layers naturally. At the beginning, he used Korean paper (Hanji) to study about diffusion of color on the paper and layering because it is often used in traditional Asian paintings. After mastering it, he started to apply the technique on canvas. Because of this coloring technique, his artworks look Western and traditional Asian at the same time. He enjoys this process of mixing colors through spread because of its random feature. He controls this uncontrollable aspect, which is similar to making a latte. This makes his artworks more unique and creative.
Kim has had many exhibitions throughout Asia and Europe, and his works appeared in some popular Korean TV series.
The materials I use for my creations include acrylic painting, water-based mediums, mineral pigments, metal foil, and handmade paper. Mixing colors with acrylic materials involves physically touching the pigments, creating a tactile experience through fingertips and minerals. Starting from records and memories of everyday objects, I transform abstract visual and tactile senses into personal life experiences, representing intimate symbols closely related to my creative process.
On my journey of creation, I've moved from external exploration to internal depths, which has been an anxiety-inducing process for me. The unease and emotions cannot be fully articulated in words, but this phase of life has enriched my experiences, fostering richer and more introspective emotions in my work.
A significant part of my creation is rooted in personal relationships, particularly familial bonds. For me, family ties encompass motivations for happiness, security, and fulfillment, but also key triggers for anger, impatience, and struggle. Oscillating between the joys and challenges of family dynamics, unlike a traditional artist who might choose to escape, I document this self; the creator in me stands at the boundary of family and society. I interpret roles like "daughter," "sister," and "salesperson," while transforming everyday objects linked by familial relationships into canvases filled with circles, aiming to balance my current life state. When discussing how my art reflects my personal life, I often find myself confined by restrictive responsibilities. Creation allows me temporary respite.
Life is constructed through various elements, and each passing moment is irreplaceable. Through constant observation and the portrayal of "visual and tactile senses of everyday objects," I clarify shifts in my own mental state. In essence, through creation, I clarify myself, achieving the source of my creativity. The "Circle" series of creations, embedded with observations through sight, touch, and inner messages, enables me to consciously handle various emotions in my work and complete a series of pieces accordingly.
Exhibiting Artists