
Eun Mi Kim
Eunmee Kim is a self-taught abstract artist based in Edmonton, originally from South Korea.
She studied architectural design and later worked as a graphic designer. These diverse creative experiences have shaped her artistic perspective.
Her paintings pulse with bold shapes, vibrant colors, and layered textures, exploring the balance between intuitive expression and deliberate structure. Viewers often describe her work as different, happy, and calm, drawn to the way it sparks both energy and serenity.
Working from her home studio, Eunmee embraces each stage of discovery in her evolving abstract practice, inviting others to share in her sense of curiosity and movement.
Artist Statement
Inspiration flows from every corner of my life through experiences, memories, and emotions. I move between small towns and big cities: early childhood in a mountain village, twenty years in Seoul, now based in Edmonton since 2012, while returning to both places every year.
My paintings move between two visual languages: the organic and the geometric. Flowing, intuitive gestures echo the rhythms of nature such as wind, water, leaves, shifting landscapes. In contrast, straight lines and angular structures suggest the man-made world: architecture, design, the order we build around ourselves. Though a painting may lean more toward one side, fluid or structured, both arise from the same intuitive process. I don’t plan the outcome; I let the forms appear, collide, and find balance on the canvas. For me, the organic and the geometric reflect how nature and human creation coexist. My work lives in that in-between space, where spontaneity meets structure and abstract shapes carry the feeling of both the natural and the constructed.