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Kenji Lim
Born 1980
Lives and works in Malvern, UK
www.kenjilim.com

Kenji Lim’s landscapes are imagined locations based
on memories or time spent in the mountains and forests.
They are inhabited worlds where at the least there is
a trace of what has been there before you. Of primary
importance to Lim is the atmosphere created in
its environment.

Working on board as he prefers the fl at surface it
provides, allows Lim to layer washes slowly and to
highlight the texture created by the paint itself. Lim also
loves the natural warmth of the board which can come
through either by leaving areas thinly washed, giving a
glow to the monochrome palette he uses, or by using
wood-stain to enhance that warmth, creating a very
deep, rich tone to sharply contrast the coldness of the
paint palette.

Lim has spent many winters living in the mountains of
Canada and the USA and brings this to his work in the
appreciation of the quality of light and sound that these
forests and mountainsides create. The Forests deaden
and dull the senses, and the open mountainside blinds
you with brilliant light and sound echoing through
the valleys.
KENJI LIM graduated with BFA Fine Art from the Ruskin School of
Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University (2002) and was placed
third in the Becks Futures Student Prize that same summer. Lim
has exhibited his work across the UK and internationally, shows
including; At Home With Strangers, Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo,
Japan (2014), Framed, Candid Arts Galleries, London, UK (2014),
Vienna Showcase, MOYA, Vienna, Austria (2013), Herefordshire
Art Week, Blue Ginger Gallery, Herefordshire, UK (2013), New
Artist Fair, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, UK (2013), Burton
Snowboards Stand, SIA, Denver, CO, USA (2013), ThreeNine and
Friends, Bristol, UK (2012), Fringe Arts Bath Open Exhibition, Bath,
UK (2012), Freeze Festival, Battersea, London, UK (2010), Ruskin
Degree Show, Ruskin School, Oxford, UK (2002) and Becks Futures
Student Prize 2002 (Touring Show), ICA, London, UK (2002).

Far right: This Scar is A Fleck On My Porcelain Skin, 2014,
Acrylic on board.
h: 92cm w: 61cm d: 3cm, Artist’s Collection.
Right: This Is Also Possible For You, 2014, Acrylic on board.
h: 92cm w: 58cm d: 3cm, Artist’s Collection.
Next page left: Hold Your Breath And Strain To Listen, 2013,
Acrylic on board.
h: 49cm w: 40cm d: 3cm, Artist’s Collection.
Next page right: I Don’t Know What It Looks Like From Up There,
2014, Acrylic and wood-stain on board.
h: 41cm w: 30cm d: 3cm, Artist’s Collection.

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