Cindy Yan Lam (she/her) is a Canadian visual artist and papermaker. In addition to painting, her current practice focuses on working with paper as a medium. Lam holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Falmouth University, UK She was awarded distinction classifications for both her final major project and for her degree. In 2024, she was the recipient of an Explore and Create grant by the Canada Council for the Arts which support her further explorations in hand papermaking.

When she is not making art you will find her exploring the residential streets, parks, and ravines in her neighborhood with her two beloved Samoyed dogs aka her studio mates.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My creative methods include painting, stitching (by machine and by hand), writing and hand papermaking. My work explores themes of slowness, the passage of time, of juxtapositions, and of regeneration. Much of my work incorporates methods and materials that are highly tactile and require time in their development. Through my practice I aim to counter the frenetic pace of our highly digitized age where faster is often deemed better. Many of my mixed media abstract works and landscape paintings are influenced by my daily walking practice where I attune to the many non-human lifeforms we share our planet with.