Sue Tien | Hanging Out

Amongst the hustle and bustle of our hectic lives, Sue aims to capture the quiet and candid moments of the people closest to her. Her goal is to create a feeling of tranquility and harmony in her work to ease the anxiety caused by the quick passing of time. She loves to observe peaceful and leisurely moments where people let their guard down and letting their true essences to emerge. Like these moments, Sue paints spontaneously, allowing the paints to mingle and disperse freely. This method allows the image to form more of an impression of a scene rather than a realistic image. By using thin diluted pigments of paint, she is able to generate a sense of lightness and airiness in her work. This also allows the outline of the subjects to become hazier and blurred, as if looking into one’s memories or a sort of dream like scenario.

Sue Tien is an interior designer and artist based in Vancouver, BC. She has completed her  Architectural Technology Program and has received an honours Interior Design Technology diploma from N.A.I.T.  For many years, she has worked as an interior designer and enjoyed  watercolour painting as a hobby.  Six years ago, she  decided to go back to college to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a visual artist.  She received her Fine Arts diploma from Langara College in 2016 and completed her BFA  in painting at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2020. Over the past few years, she has had a number of group exhibitions in British Columbia and her work has been sold to private collectors in North America and Asia.