MaiYap is a Chinese Panamanian artist, art instructor and consultant. She produces high quality innovative paintings that bring happiness and environmental awareness. She is a master colorist who utilizes a diversity of colors to bring a sense of wellness and empowerment to whoever sees her creations. In her 30 years of experience, nature has always been an inspiration. She paints in a variety of techniques, ranging from realistic flowers utilizing traditional brushes, to landscapes and environmental abstracts done exclusively with palette knives.

MaiYap’s unique ancestral combination, Chinese and Panamanian, shows in her all her work. Her paintings are very delicate and intricate but done in strong and vibrant tropical colors. From the beginning her unusual close-up flowers helped her to establish herself as one of the best floral painters in South Florida, which landed her a position as an art teacher at prestigious Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens. MaiYap is also a master palette knife artist. Presently she is the only instructor teaching this technique in Miami. Using only palette knives, she is the first to depict South Florida’s landscape in an impressionistic pointillism style. Her latest environmental abstracts question our beliefs and propel us to take action for the preservation our planet.

Ms. Yap holds a BA in Journalism and Graphic Design from the University of Georgia.  She is currently teaching at the Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens in Miami, Florida.

In the Garden of Eden #1 palette knife oil on canvas, 30 X 30 $1,800

Confetti 10 palette knife oil on canvas, 48 x 30

Music to My Ears palette knife oil over acrylic on paper in shadow box frame 27 x 35 $1,400

Confetti #34 18 X 18 Original $550

Meditation #51 30 X 36 Original $1,600

Cloudscape #49 40 X 30 Original $2,400​