Category Oil Painting

Oil paintings exploring emotional presence, inner states, and contemporary lived experience through layered visual language.

Becoming

Oil painting Becoming by Percy Lin, showing a partially visible human figure emerging through layered textures and muted colours.

(This page can be translated using your browser, or 點此直接閱讀中文翻譯 ) 2026 · Oil on canvas · 65 × 100 cm · London, Ontario, Canada Featured in the 2026 London Pride Art Show promotional image and recipient of the People’s Choice Award.…

I am. Am I?

Self-portrait in blue and warm light exploring identity and self-awareness, oil painting by Percy Lin, 2026.

2026 · Oil Painting · London, Ontario, CanadaExhibited at the 35th London Pride Art Show (2026) The first self-portrait I ever finished. For more than twenty years, I wanted to paint a self-portrait. I started several times, but somehow I…

At the Threshold

A solitary figure standing between darkness and light in a quiet atmospheric space — oil painting by Percy Lin 2026

2026 · Oil Painting · London, Ontario, Canada(This page can be translated using your browser, or 點此直接閱讀中文翻譯 ) ARTCOMP 2026 voting period: now till Sep 7th.Link: –> VOTE (Art ID#5088)Click for step by step “How to Vote” A single…

Still, I Stand

Back view of a standing male figure inspired by classical sculpture, painted with thick textured oil layers and warm earthy tones, oil painting by Percy Lin 2025

2025 · Oil on Canvas · 65cmx100cmLondon, Ontario, Canada Creating myself, standing in the world In 2016, I visited the Louvre in Paris for the first time.The light and the space there felt timeless, as if everything had slowed down.…

Dissolve

Back view of a male figure emerging through steam and soft light, edges dissolving into warm atmospheric colors, oil painting by Percy Lin 2025

2025 · Oil on Canvas · London, Ontario, Canada A moment of presence, captured in color and form.Observing oneself in the act of simply being. I painted Dissolve after a quiet afternoon at the swimming pool. Inside the steam room,…

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Close-up oil painting of a man’s face, focusing on one eye, nose, ear, and beard, with visible brushstrokes and textured canvas surface.

2025 · Oil on Canvas · London, Ontario, Canada He has always been my muse. The first time I saw him was in 2000. Before that, we had only talked through emails for a month —words on a screen, light,…

First Autumn in London

An impressionistic oil painting of a dark steel railway bridge crossing over a calm river, with its structure reflected clearly in the water. Autumn trees in shades of yellow, gold, and olive line the right bank, while the sky above is pale blue with soft clouds. The overall atmosphere is quiet and contemplative.

2024 · Oil on CanvasLondon, Ontario, Canada Although this painting was exhibited at the Western Fair in September 2025 and received third place,the image itself belongs to an earlier moment. September 2024. Our first autumn after moving to London —and…

Quietly Nourishing

An oil painting of a teapot holding plants and flowers on a windowsill, with soft light and a textured wall in the background.

June 2024 — Brantford, Ontario, CanadaOil Painting This wasn’t something I planned to paint. It was just a small corner of the house. A windowsill.A teapot.A few plants growing in different directions.Afternoon light resting quietly on the wall. Nothing special.…