Lily Swain is a visual artist, yoga teacher, and educator living in the Ottawa Valley with her family. She is a graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver, BC) and holds a Bachelor of Education in Art Education from York University (Toronto, ON). With over 25 years of personal yoga practice, Lily brings the same curiosity, mindfulness, and appreciation for the creative process to both her teaching and her artwork.

Lily’s recent work explores personal expression and the search for solace in a world shaped by constant change and complexity. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, she creates paintings that reflect a deep connection to landscape, memory, and the present moment. Her work focuses on gesture, colour, composition, and movement to evoke emotion.

Working across painting, drawing, and mixed media, Lily embraces expressive brushwork and intuitive mark-making as a way of exploring themes of memory, dreams, loss, growth, and renewal. Her yoga practice has deeply influenced this process, encouraging presence, observation, and trust in the unfolding of each piece. Whether teaching on the mat or creating in the studio, Lily is interested in cultivating spaces where people can slow down, reconnect with themselves, and experience creativity as a mindful practice.

Each piece tells a story through the eyes of a mother, wife, daughter, sister, artist, and yoga teacher—someone continually seeking beauty, balance, and meaning in everyday life.