Each colour holds a certain significance, fundamentally tied to emotions: white symbolizes innocence, green refers to nature, pink is associated with romance and black reminds us of power and formality, as examples.

Colour is also the most basic vocabulary of visual language. Without having shape, it appeals to our eyes. It speaks directly to our instincts.

Having studied oriental scenery paintings with ink on paper, Lim Chae Wook's works emit calmness and a wide sense of empty space surrounding his subject matter, just as in traditional Korean scenic paintings. However there's vivid colour on his photographs, which are not used in traditional paintings, rendering the image surreal. The colours fill the blank and define how the subject matter should be viewed.

After all, 'nature is more depth than surface,' as Paul Cezanne once said.

"I want to talk to the feelings of viewers delivering my own feeling which overwhelmed me when I took the photo of a certain scenery. This is not about taking good looking pictures of the nature but about describing scenes that exist in our mind but not in visible reality. Colours make this process possible," say Lim.