Name/Title
Western Park Apartments - Sun Lee - ThinkingDescription
Sun Lee was born in North Korea. In 1954, after the Korean War, she moved to South Korea. In 1975, she married and moved to the United States with her husband. He worked as an architect and an engineer, and she took care of the home and her children. During this time she took classes in Figure Drawing, Watercolor, and Pen and Ink at San Mateo College. When her children were older she returned to work at Pacific Paper, and then for ten years as a cashier at Safeway. She then moved with her family to Sacramento where she ran a car wash. While living there she took up Yoga and hiking.
She currently resides at Western Park Apartments with her husband. Before the pandemic, she was taking AWE classes, and is happy that the in-person classes have resumed. She had wanted to complete her education in art, but did not have the time. Now that she is retired and has resumed her art practice, she is enjoying the community AWE class at Western Park Apartments, which has a beautiful light filled art studio for the residents.
She likes to paint scenes from nature and is interested in the human figure. She has worked with many approaches to learning to draw and paint, such as drawing from a yoga manual, still life arrangements, self portraits, and by studying painters such as Edgar Degas.
