As a child, Park spent many happy hours in the studio of her father, Hyun-Kyu Park, a renowned surrealist painter with work in major Korean national galleries and collections. Surrealism is a strong influence in Park's own work, which she considers as a process of exploring and mapping her psyche; in her first show, My Reflection, dark moonlit vistas emerged onto canvas, peopled by mythological creatures and strange beastial hybrids. Animal symbolism is important for Park: for her it approaches "a universal language."

Park's second show offered surreal, dream-like images drawn from her memories of a childhood split between two cultures. Favourite toys, traditional festivals and Korean sweets are set against coastal Auckland landscapes and the mountains of Korea. Funny and lyrical, these paintings are, for Park, "a step into the sunlight after a darker period"; yet they retain, behind their sweetness, the strangeness of the landscapes of the mind and the slight, sharp tang of memory, of a lost past.