Heeyoung Kim paints flowers with watercolor, oil, pen and ink, colored pencils and pencils. Recently she devotes most of her time in painting Illinois wildflowers including rare, endangered and threatened species with watercolor.

She loves to dramatize the unique characteristics of each plant she takes as her subject  in order to make her viewers actually notice their beauty.

Drawing or painting wildflowers is quite a task for me. It requires patience and passion: sometimes I wait years till my subject blooms into a form that is pleasing to me, and I track every single steps of its life circle in order to put more accurate and scientific information into my paintings. Battling against the hot sun or vicious bugs and insects, though, my love for the unloved creatures has grown deeper and deeper wishing their beauty and significance would be shared with the world.