Biography:
Sine Lam is an emerging visual artist based in Ontario, Canada. With a background in fashion design and visual arts, she creates atmospheric paintings inspired by time, quiet interiors, everyday life, and fleeting moments of beauty. Influenced by minimal aesthetics, her work explores light, breathing space, and the emotional presence found in everyday scenes, stillness and objects. Her paintings create space and remind to slow down, and reconnect with moments of quiet beauty, nature and solitude. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions, including at the Marianne van Silfhout Gallery and Fulford Place.
Statement:
My artwork explores light, atmosphere, and quiet moments found in everyday life. I am drawn to the way sunlight, city glow, shadows, and ordinary objects can hold emotion without the need for a dramatic story. Through colour, composition, and painterly marks, I create images that encourage viewers to slow down and notice the beauty in often overlooked moments. I am particularly interested in things that are temporary — fading light, flowers in bloom, silent interiors, and passing moments in the city. My paintings explore themes of presence, memory, and the emotional connection we form with places, objects, and moments in time.
About artist
AWARDS / HONOURS
2026 — Honorable Mention Award, TERAVARNA 13th Landscape Juried Art Competition
2026 — Honorable Mention Award, TERAVARNA 14th Open International Juried Art Competition
2025 — Alumni Award of Visual & Creative Arts, Roots and Reflections, St. Lawrence College Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition
2024 — Winner, CICAN 2024 Student Art Contest, Textile, Mixed Media, Sculpture or Printmaking Category
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 — WGA Doors Open: Small Paintings Show, The John McKenzie House, May 23–24
2026 — Fourth Annual Fulford Place Juried Art Show and Sale, Fulford Place, Brockville, ON, May 1–3
2025 — Proof of Life: 2025 Juried Alumni Exhibition, Marianne van Silfhout Gallery, St. Lawrence College, Brockville, ON, Jun 23–Aug 1
2025 — Roots and Reflections: 2025 Juried Graduate Exhibition, Marianne van Silfhout Gallery, St. Lawrence College, Brockville, ON, Apr 17–Jun 6
2024–2025 — Oil Painting Show, St. Lawrence College Student Commons, Brockville, ON, Dec 13–Feb 20
2024 — Year 2 Printmaking Show, St. Lawrence College, Brockville, ON, Nov 29
2024 — Textiles: Yarn Bombing Installation, St. Lawrence College, Brockville, ON, Oct 27–Dec 9
2024 — Facing Forward: 2024 Juried Exhibition, Marianne van Silfhout Gallery, St. Lawrence College, Brockville, ON, Aug 6–Sept 13
2024 — JOY: Celebrating Rivers, Lakes, Land and Life, Fulford Place Juried Art Exhibition, Fulford Place, Brockville, ON, May 3–5
2024 — Blood, Sweat and Tears, St. Lawrence College Student Commons, Brockville, ON, Apr–Sept
2024 — A Look at First Year, Fall 2023, Marianne van Silfhout Foyer Gallery, St. Lawrence College, Brockville, ON, Jan 16–Mar 29
2023 — First Year Watercolour Show, St. Lawrence College Student Commons, Brockville, ON, Nov–Dec
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 — Solo Exhibition, Brockville Library, Brockville, ON, Aug–Dec
ARTS EXPERIENCE
Gallery Assistant, Marianne van Silfhout Gallery, St. Lawrence College, Brockville, ON, Jan 2024–Apr 2025
PUBLIC ART / COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2025 May — Mural Restoration Project, Lanark, Leeds and Grenville Addictions and Mental Health Centre, Brockville, ON
2026 June — TBC
VOLUNTEER
2026 June — TBC
2026 July — TBC
EDUCATION
Diploma, Fine Arts – Visual & Creative Arts, St. Lawrence College, Brockville, ON, 2025
BA(Hons), Fashion Design and Textile Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 2015
WORKSHOP CERTIFICATES
Certified Zentangle Teacher, 19th CZT Asia, 2022
Certificate in Nagomi Pastel Advanced and Associated Instructor, JPHAA
Art4Menu Trainer and Teacher Training Certificate
Advanced Instructor Certificate, Pastel Wagara Asobi
Certificate in Alcohol Ink Art in Black
SELECTED PUBLICATION / EXHIBITION MATERIAL
2024 — Facing Forward: 2024 Juried Exhibition, Advertising material for Marianne van Silfhout Gallery, Aug 6 - Sept 13
CUSTOMIZ ARTWORKS