Jinsook Shinde was born in 1952, South Korea. She completed her B.F.A from Hong IK College of Art in Seoul, 1976. Later, from 1980-1983, she studied printmaking at Atelier 17 under Prof. S. W. Hayter in Paris.
Jinsook imbibes the techniques of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy with contemporary art-making. Nature and landscape play a pivotal role in her work where the elements of nature act and react on the viewer’s mind like brief Zen notations. The Taoist images of simplification of forms in space are reflected in the formal economy of her work. She employs the deceptively simple line as her tool of expression.
She uses spontaneous brushwork, natural pigments and linear strips which are then positioned in such a way as to give the viewer the experience of the changing depth, space and surface texture, when the viewer moves from one viewing point to another. Her paintings, though static, are yet sculptural and animated like kinetic objects, and she induces speed with colour, a technique unique to her practice in contemporary Indian art.
The artist lives and works in Mumbai, India.