ChoungHa Lee is a painter based in London. 

She is currently completing her Master of Arts in Painting at the Royal College of Art.

Her practice centres on layered oil painting on linen — translucent layers built up slowly, each one accumulating without losing itself, like old memories that remain felt even beneath newer ones. The work is not concerned with what is seen, but with the act of seeing itself: the moment of contact between a body and a surface, before thought has had time to arrive. Colour is drawn from memory rather than observation.

Each work begins with a mark that is never erased. What follows — layer after layer of translucent oil on linen — accumulates around that first gesture, deepening it without covering it. The paintings are built from repetition: the same motion returned to, varied slightly, until something shifts in the surface. To look at them is to enter a rhythm.