With titles like Hung Up, Still, There Never Was No Other and I Don’t Want to Stare at Your Feet All Night, Lane Crawford Creative Call Out finalist Michelle Jane Lee’s work feels personal. And it is – each idiosyncratic canvas is filled with coloured squares and patterns and is in fact a love letter to Lee’s former girlfriends.

Described as “minimalist in form yet muscular in content,” the Korean born, Los Angeles based artist’s work is often sparse - but always packed with feelings of complex density. Lee uses a colour alphabet she developed herself to create narrative abstracts across each canvas, which, when paired with an intimate, loaded use of language creates a highly emotive art exploration that comes from the heart.

While a selection of the artist’s latest Love Letters series are currently on showcase at Lane Crawford’s ifc mall store, our lust for Lee’s work is going nowhere fast.