About

Maria (Taehyoung) Jeon is a South Korean artist working from her studio in Seoul.

Jeon’s formative years were spent across New Zealand and the UK, bringing a multi-cultural quality to her work that blends eastern and western aesthetics. Since 2022, she has actively collaborated with various clients including The Washing Post and Vogue Korea.

With a background in computer animation and traditional printmaking, Jeon is familiar with both digital and traditional mediums. In recent years, she developed ‘Plant series’ painted digitally on her ipad. With a printmaker’s eye, her construction of layered images led her to create artworks in separate slices. With the advantage of working digitally, it allows her to try colour combinations until she finds the one that best represents her stories.

With the belief that vegetation and humans have a very close relationship, she explores new ways to document her experiences and the world around her using botanical elements and the human figure. Hence, she challenges herself by experimenting with compositing colours and shapes to best express them. Her plant series started in 2022 and has grown and developed alongside the artist. Starting with the green leaf period, followed by the flower period, mushroom period, insects period, her series is yet ongoing.