​Aerin is an emerging artist and designer whose creative practice spans painting, photography, fashion, and mixed media. Based in Vancouver, the 15-year-old artist draws inspiration from the natural world, often exploring the organic forms and textures found outdoors. Aerin enjoys baking banana bread and dancing, both of which reflect the warmth and energy present in her work.

Nilasha, a Visual Artist from Assam, India, is now based in Vancouver, where she is completing my BFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her practice is shaped by the landscapes, mythology, and spirituality. She grew up in Northeast India, and experienced the dislocation of moving across cultures. She often returns to archetypes and mythological figures, weaving them into figurative and landscape paintings that mirror her own questions of identity and belonging. Painting for her is both refuge and confrontation, a way of holding space for self-doubt, memory, and hope, while creating quiet invitations for others to reflect on their own stories.

Vals Liu, a multi-talented artist. He draws creative inspiration from the startling characteristics of
contemporary society combined with traditional Chinese culture. Vals mixes materials, colours,
and shapes to communicate a sense energy, conflict, and evolution. He is a multidisciplinary artist
proficient in drawing and painting, photography, graphic and illustration design.

Vals Liu moved to Vancouver BC from Shanghai China in 2001, His artworks were on exhibit in the
Hilton and Sheraton Hotels, Shanghai China in 1990-1991; at Winsor Gallery in Vancouver
Downtown in 2002-2003. He created VSA Art+Design Studio and VSA Youth Art Foundation since
then. As a top 1% Art Educator winner, he has been training and guiding over hundred youth
achieve top art colleges and art competition awards for over 15 years.

Ruobing Liao is a Toronto-based oil painter whose work combines vivid color with expressive figurative forms. She studied art at Sheridan College and has developed a distinctive visual language centered on the human body, emotion, and organic imagery.

Her paintings often depict female figures in dreamlike spaces where natural elements—such as thorny plants and branching forms—intertwine with the body. Through luminous palettes and fluid compositions, she creates atmospheric scenes that blur the boundaries between inner experience and the natural world.

Ruobing has exhibited her work in Canada, including at Artist Project Toronto 2024,2025and 2026. She was awarded Second Place in the Artists to Watch Competition. Her practice continues to explore the relationship between color, emotion, and the organic forms that appear throughout her work.