Peter Moon, a celebrated Korean artist, is renowned for his innovative approach to watercolor art. He explores the medium with playful curiosity, embracing its fluidity and unique properties. By keeping the paper surface moist, Moon skillfully guides pigments across the canvas, allowing them to merge and flow freely, capturing the essence of water itself. This process, which Moon views as a form of purification, creates a boundless surface that occupies space without altering it fundamentally, symbolizing the significance and teachings of water.
Moon's compositions, characterized by their seamless blend of shape and color, evoke a meditative state in viewers. His intuitive technique, working loosely on paper and canvas, brings forth a serene, abstract expression of water’s nature. Moon believes that water, with its life-giving and cleansing properties, connects the earth and sky, representing the beginning of life.
In reflecting on the digital age's impact on art, Moon draws parallels between new artistic mediums and the adaptive, enduring nature of water. While digital art forms rise, traditional aesthetics remain, much like water's unchanging role in human existence, illustrating the juxtaposition of experience in the evolving art world.
Moon has had many solo exhibitions including at The Water of Life Gallery in Seoul, Korea; at Elaine L.Jacob Gallery in Wayne State University in Detroit, USA; at B-Tree Gallery in Seoul, Korea; at Kalamazoo Institute of Art in Michigan, USA; at L Concept Gallery in Paris, France; to name a few. He took part in numerous group exhibitions including “RESTORE” at Waterfall Gallery in New York, USA; "Visual Story" at Geu-rimson Gallery in Seoul, Korea; "Re:collection" at Waterfall Gallery, and “Exposition des visages des 5 continents” at the PAF2018 (Paris, France), among many others.
Peter Moon is an award recipient of The 25th Korea Watercolor Competition Grand Prize at Seongnam Art Center in Korea, Grand Prize in the 2nd Korea Watercolor Painting Exhibition, Seoul Gallery in Korea, and Grand Prize of the 32nd Korean Art Competition in Korea. Moon's works have been collected by many private collectors including the Kalamazoo Institute of Art in Michigan, USA.
