About Me
In Praise of Quiet Light and Everyday Stillness
Erin Yang is a Toronto-based painter working primarily in oil. Her practice centers on quiet interiors, still lifes, landscapes, and solitary figures—spaces where silence holds emotional weight and subtle shifts of light become the work’s true subject.
Rooted in careful observation and restraint, her work explores the tension between presence and absence, intimacy and distance. Domestic spaces, flowers, and everyday objects appear not as decoration, but as vessels of memory and psychological atmosphere. Through nuanced color relationships and deliberate composition, she creates contemplative environments that invite viewers to slow down and look more closely.
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Before dedicating herself fully to painting, Erin practiced medicine for nine years after graduating from Zhejiang University School of Medicine. This early training shaped a disciplined way of seeing—an attentiveness to structure, fragility, and the complexity beneath surface appearances. Her clinical experience also deepened her sensitivity to the quiet dignity and vulnerability of life, perspectives that continue to inform the emotional undercurrents of her work.
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She has studied drawing and oil painting since 2007 under the guidance of a professional painter trained at the China Academy of Art, and has worked as a full-time artist since 2018.
In 2020, she was elected as an Emerging Artist by the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA).
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Erin currently lives and works in Toronto. Her work is held in private collections in Canada and internationally.
