Simji Park's Dreamlike Illustrations Capture Everyday Moments

Simji Park, an illustrator, creates calm, tactile, and impressionistic drawings that transform everyday moments into dreamlike vignettes. Her inspiration comes from walking her dog, feeling the wind, overhearing conversations, reading, and being with loved ones, especially during nighttime walks. She works intuitively with materials like pencil, watercolor, oil paints, and digital tools, sometimes animating her images. Park describes drawing as therapeutic, helping her give form to complex feelings. Her works, including 'Red Horse', 'Poem', 'Home', 'Unbothered', 'Beautiful Chaos', 'Forest Dog', 'A Noisy Tree', 'Watching the Water', and 'dotdotdot', feature insects, animals, and tiny humans in nature-filled scenes. The article was published on It's Nice That on August 26, 2020, and written by Marigold Warner, a British-Japanese writer based in Tokyo.