Audio Transcript
My name is Minhan Cho. I’m an oil painter, painting landscapes and seascapes. I try to spend much time outside to learn from actual scenes by taking little sketches and plein air paintings and if I don’t have any material, I really enjoy just watching things - how light, like shifting in lights or in shadow. My work is more like - I’m not concerned much about accuracy or similarity. I always pursue the overall feeling. I think through this process is finding answer, so it’s more like dialogue between me and canvas. Sometimes I, I love some broken area. So I leave them until end and if it works well then I leave them as a final. It’s more like sometimes accident, happy accident.
In Moreton Bay Art Collection there is the ‘Morning walk at Brennan Park’. The reason I still pick that one as my favourite is I was kind of, very struggling, to learn how to make things right on the shadow, looking at very bright place. So at the time I decided I’m going to make something, brighter painting than I used to do. So it has very strong composition with dark area and light area. So for the dark area has lots of elements in it like figures and picnic benches, tree trunks and grass, shaded sand, that’s in one value. When you step away to look at it, then you see there’s a big shadow and big figures, not clearly but you can notice that. But when you get close look you can see more, like something hidden. I think it’s kind of joy to discover something new when you look, when you looking close you can find something more and new. So if people feel that kind of thing, they find something connection and joy out of my painting I think that’s the best and I can say that painting is a happy painting.