Yangyang Pan
Coming from away, I unpack my paint box to interpret the Canadian landscape from a different perspective. I tame the wilderness and make my gardens wild. With a bird’s eye view of the new, yet old earth around me, I challenge the Canadian Shield and honour the St. Lawrence Lowlands. It is an immigrant immersion. I learn the land and present its messages. The abstracted landscape lets me step into it gently, then build, with my brushstrokes, this new embrace to a release. I paint my way into a new space that does not contain me. It allows me to feel an unfamiliar freedom and, at the same time, to be myself. My focus is on chromatic lyricism. My paintings, with their exuberance and wild colours, develop and evolve as an intuitive reaction to my beautiful surroundings, whether as close as the garden or farther throughout the region. The resulting work is an interplay of my memories and my present, as I bring together the ethereal and the physicality of the land around me. Perhaps this distillation of nostalgia helps me to understand the here and now. What I wish to present is my journey. While ostensibly based on the dynamic visual forces of nature, landscape and surroundings, these lyrical works are as much a landscape of my inner emotions, memories and history. I want my paintings to pulse with life and reveal a marriage of my cultural connections and ideas of aesthetics. This work allows me to consider the space between seen and unseen, which takes root in one’s senses and memory. I aim for the beauty and drama of evocative abstract painting within an ongoing exploration of what can be achieved in paint. I try to push the relation between form and colour to create a visual sensation of energy, emotion, and reality: epiphany. Yangyang’s ‘Ephiphany’ solo exhibition at the Elora Centre for the Arts recently captured the energy flow and the senses, and the fusion of eastern and western traditions. She grew up in China, where she got her art education. While much of her influence comes from Chinese culture and arts, she is also influenced by western abstract expressionism painters like Willem De Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Philip Guston and Cy Twombly, among others. Her work reflects the blend of ideas between east and west, and is emblematic of the global nature of art. We are currently featuring the work of Yangyang Pan at the Elora Mill Hotel & Spa. The pieces you see in her virtual gallery below are part of that exhibition, and are available for purchase.
Gallery
Artists Gallery
To inquire about any of these pieces, please email here.
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‘Cliff’s Edge’ — Please Inquire
Oil on canvas, featured at the Elora Mill (framed in dark grey) 36″ x 36″
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‘The New Day’ — SOLD
Oil on canvas, installed in the Spa Hallway at the Elora Mill 30″ x 24″, framed
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‘Renewal’ — Please Inquire
Oil on canvas, framed in white (featured at the Elora Mill, in the spa hallway 30″ x 30″
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‘On a Quest’ — Please Inquire
Oil on linen, featured at the Elora Mill in the spa hallway 36″ x 60″
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‘Earlier Spring’ — Please Inquire
Oil on canvas, featured at the Elora Mill, in the spa hallway 48″ x 36″
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“Whispering Wind” — Please Inquire
Oil on linen, featured at the Elora Mill in the spa hallway 40″ x 60″
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“Meditator” — Please Inquire
Oil on canvas, featured at the Elora Mill, in the spa hallway 48″ x 48″
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“Mist Light” — Please Inquire
Oil on canvas, framed in white wood. Featured at the Elora Mill, in the spa hallway 30″ x 30″