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Tinyan Chan

Tinyan Chan (Born 1942) is active/lives in Canada, China.  Tinyan Chan is known for Abstract landscape, floral, harbor view.

Born in Hin Kwong Village of Kwangtung, China to a family of artists, he became a popular floral and landscape artist in Canada in the late 20th century. His style combines abstraction and impressionism, and he seeks to paint familiar subjects.

He studied at the Mid-Southern Academy of Fine Arts in Wu Han, Hubei, and at age 19 enrolled at Canton Academy of Fine Art.

In 1962, he moved to Hong Kong and was appointed Chief Designer by the United Nigerian Textile Company, West Africa. He went from Nigeria to Paris with Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux Arts, and in 1967 moved his family to Vancouver, Canada where he received the Federation of Canadian Artists senior status, limited in Senior Members to only 25.

His work reflects the diverse cultural aspects of his life: the strict discipline of the Chinese brush painting tradition, western Impressionism, and Asian floral arranging from bowls and vases of the extensive collection of his wife, Nita.

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