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Mae Jeon is a digital fine artist whose love for flowers   creation. Her discovery aroused such a deep passion
           tugs on the fundamental chords that weave throughout       in her that she immediately began experimenting with
           her artwork. Her compositional treatment of motifs,        digital techniques on subjects such as abstraction,

           colors, and other inherent qualities are guided by her     portraits of women, still life, and landscapes.
           intuition. She also finds great inspiration from her
           reflective time in meditation and spiritual reading.       “One day, a red tulip with sharp, serrated edges along

                                                                      its petals was the focus of all my attention,” says Mae,
           Her first encounter with digital art was in the early
                                                                      “In my mind’s eye, the flower embodied the anguish
          TOP CONTEMPOR ARY ARTISTS  2000s. She was working as a graphic designer in New   I was feeling at the time.” With this powerful insight,
                                                                      she decided to photograph the flower and create an
           York and was mesmerized by the seemingly limitless
                                                                      abstract background to express her emotions.
           possibilities that digital software could offer art

           ONE LOVE, 2020 DIGITAL ART ON METAL 30 IN. | 76.2 CM. CIRCLE


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