About
Hi there, I'm Ninglu [▸ ning-lu].
I'm an illustration artist from Winnipeg, Canada, currently completing my final year of medical school at the University of Manitoba. Prior to entering medicine, I received my Bachelor of Health Sciences degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
Creating visual art has long been a passion of mine. As a child, I spent countless hours drawing my own picture books, fantasy figures, floral scenes, and Japanese-inspired characters. My interests in depicting human portraits, natural objects, and surrealist dreamscapes persist to this day. Art is a hobby I continually seek to help materialize my imagination, detail my observations, and beautify existent elements of reality. My practice spans both traditional pencil-to-paper and digital tablet mediums.
While this site primarily serves as my 'visual arts' portfolio, I view art as deeply intertwined with my interests in the sciences and the humanities. In this lifelong journey to understand more about the world, philosophy provides the principled framework that guides my questioning; science offers the methodical, probabilistic means of exploration; and art serves as the intuitive means of grappling with the unknown. Each discipline shares transferable elements of curiosity, awe, observation, and analysis. I owe much of my artistic taste and influence to my studies in human anatomy and physiology, the natural sciences, aesthetics, psychedelia, and literary science fiction.
Beyond visual art and medicine, I enjoy long-distance running, live music, discovering new foods, exploring cities by foot, sipping on matcha lattes, and reading.