"Unlike client projects, where you travel from point A to point B and make sure everything is made efficiently, the project is a body of fragmented works that the illustrator slowly developed by drawing inspiration from landscapes she had seen, and dreamt of."
"Having lived amongst concrete, traffic, screens and sleepless nights in London for far too long, documenting peaceful, colour-drenched scenes was a way to feel nature again, and sense an unspoken bond between myself and the world around me."
"Our phones never rest. None of these things seem urgent, yet all of them are. Sometimes all of it makes me wonder what we live for. But in the mountains, our hearts can soften. I look at the trees, the sky, the clouds and the blue water; then I know I live for this beautiful world."
"This pace meant things were able to happen in the gaps. Drawings weren't finalised all at once and compositions emerged when she revisited pieces, allowing the creative process to unfold organically through trial and error without much planning."
Illustrator Lily Kong intentionally decelerated her professional practice mid-2024 to reconnect with intuitive, iterative drawing. She developed Sweet Escape, a series of fragmented landscape works inspired by places she visited and dreamed of. Unlike her previous character-driven storytelling work, this series emphasizes lighter, joyful themes. After years in London surrounded by urban density, Kong created color-rich peaceful scenes to reconnect with nature and experience emotional softness. Using sketches, collages, block printing, and watercolor, she deliberately unplugged from digital life. Her process involved trial-and-error without extensive planning, allowing compositions to emerge organically through revisiting pieces over time.
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