Biography

Ruolin Shi is a Calgary-based landscape artist inspired by the mountains, forests, and coastlines of Western Canada, with the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest coastline as her favourite subjects. Having lived across Ontario, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Fernie before settling in Calgary, she brings a deep appreciation for the diversity of the Canadian landscape into her work. Working primarily in acrylic, she blends bold colour and geometric form with clean, linear composition, capturing the essence of a place rather than every literal detail. The result is a style built on a playful balance between structure and expressive creativity.

Shi works as an engineer, a background that shapes her creative process as much as her subject matter, bringing structure, planning, and precision to a practice otherwise driven by curiosity and experimentation. She describes herself as an engineer who creates art, and an artist who paints like an engineer.