Enter My World Where Chaos Meets Meaning

If I'm just painting a pretty picture, I'm not being honest.

While I still desire an aesthetically pleasing result, the process matters—and admittedly, sometimes that process isn't pretty at all. But isn’t that often how life works?

My art celebrates this experience of living. Life isn’t easy or always pleasant. It can often throw us down and knock us about, bring us pain so deep that it feels unbearable. But we can give meaning to these hardships by growing from them, using them as a way to look deeper within ourselves and to connect with others and the transcendent. I always search for meaning in the midst of the noise. No matter how dark it can seem, something in me persists in believing joy lives with grief. Hope with sadness. Healing with pain. Purpose with confusion.

Similarly, my process of painting is a managing of tensions—between the abstract and defined, between freedom of expression and the comfort of boundaries. It is an exploration and a listening, an ordering of chaos only to disrupt it and reorder it—all in the search to express something deep and real. Sometimes this results in a painting that remains vague and mysterious. Often it comes together in a recognizable form—especially as foliage because plant life roots me in its palpable vitality despite its apparent stillness. Plants and trees know themselves and don’t strive to be anything but themselves. In their resilience, they find their way to grow under a variety of conditions and offer their beauty and inspiration to us in the process.

Ultimately, it’s more important to me to capture the feeling of a place than the appearance. I want to make it feel like you’re there, not as an escape from reality but to give you strength and hope to push back against fear and tap into your higher self. I seek to convey the wordless beauty, inner strength, and radiant aliveness that emerge all the more true for the struggle—what I believe can be true for all of us.

Biography

Eunice Lee studied business at the University of Washington and received her M.Div from Fuller Theological Seminary—degrees far removed from the visual arts. After attempting to pursue careers more "acceptable" according to her cultural upbringing, she now fully embraces her earthy, free-spirited artist nature.

Despite being a native Seattleite who misses trees and panoramic nature vistas, the ability to play volleyball year-round in sunny Los Angeles has reconciled her to calling this urban jungle her home.