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Emma Song Yunci
CHINA
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"Art has the power of redemption and slow-flowing vitality."
Emma Song Yunci, born in 1996 in China, is a deeply introspective and emotionally perceptive artist. A highly sensitive individual, she has struggled with severe separation anxiety and neurasthenia since early childhood. Social interactions often overwhelmed her, and she found solace in extreme quietness. Encouraged by her family, Emma turned to the arts—beginning with piano and painting—which soon became essential outlets for emotional expression and healing.
The woman covering the blanket | Acrylic
$16,000
The painting depicts a woman with her eyes closed, her expression relaxed, casually wrapped in a thin colored blanket, looking languid and hazy, as beautiful as the sun reflecting from a curtain on a summer afternoon. The quiet and graceful tension between her eyebrows and eyes evokes infinite reverie, and the lines of her facial features and face outline the divine femininity, revealing the power of life force redemption.
Through music and visual art, Emma’s autism began to improve. She discovered a deep emotional honesty in the piano and an expansive, expressive freedom in painting. These mediums became her personal sanctuary—her most brilliant colors in otherwise difficult years. As she once reflected, echoing Kant’s famous words, "Art is a beauty without a purpose." To her, beauty is not superficial but a form of energy capable of holding and healing complex emotions.
She | Acrylic
$10,000
18 X 12
The painting depicts a newly awakened woman, stretching as if she had not fully woken up, but also thoughtful, her blank demeanor in harmony with her surroundings, her face with soft lines that complement the pattern of the bed board, achieving a delicate balance. This unique feminine quality is like the blank space in the picture, which seems simple, but shows a clear and vigorous life energy.
Tragedy struck when Emma was seven. Her parents divorced, and she was left in the care of an abusive mother and stepfather. This period marked the start of intense trauma—so severe that she often stood on rooftops at night, staring blankly into the distance, unsure whether she would live to see the next day. By the age of 12, Emma was suffering from severe depression.
“I express the power and tranquility of life through painting.”
As she entered college to study art, her diagnosis expanded to include anxiety, bipolar disorder, and PTSD. She was frequently bedridden and physically weak. After trying to work in a traditional setting, her health deteriorated further, and she was forced to quit. During this period, she felt as if the world around her had become gray and distorted. Fear of intimacy and people pushed her into isolation
Self Portrait | Acrylic
$18,000
24 X 18
This painting is a self-portrait of the artist Emma herself, in which she lies on the stairs, her brown hair scattered haphazardly, her expression is thoughtful, her lazy demeanor and the colors behind her become a hazy beauty, highlighting her own beauty and temperament in the eyes of the artist.
This still life is a very favorite work of EMMA herself, the whole painting adopts elegant gray tones, and the thin colors are blended into an elegant collision of cold and warm, recording an ordinary scene in life, but full of the artist's keen touch on the beauty of life.
Gray | Acrylic
$12,000
16 X 12
Despite her silence and suffering, Emma found herself moved to tears by visual art. Though she could not hear a sound, she was deeply touched by works from Rodin, Van Gogh, and Matisse. Art became a rare language she could understand—one that spoke directly to her soul. In 2024, after years of struggle, she finally learned to live with her illness and made the courageous decision to pursue art full-time.
“I want my art to carry quiet strength—gently offering beauty, healing, and warmth to people who, like me, have struggled to keep living.”
"The slow-flowing vitality of my artwork begins at the brush—filled with emotion, crossing time and space to reach others like me. I want my paintings to reveal the beauty still present in this complicated world. My purpose is to gently inject warmth and softness into it, because I believe people need beauty—and this muddy world needs it even more. Perhaps someday, my painting will reach a forgotten soul, dust them off, and help them move forward again. Vitality is my central theme. I see art as a redemptive force: subtle, emotional, and quietly powerful. I explore the soft strength of women through everyday moments—resting poses, gentle colors, and still expressions. I use quiet images to convey emotion, leaving traces of real life in ordinary scenes. While passion is dynamic, stillness better expresses life’s hidden textures. Art isn’t just for show—it holds emotion, presence, and a healing energy all its own."
Emma believes that art holds a slow but powerful vitality—one that flows from the artist’s hand, carries emotion, and quietly travels through time and space. Her purpose is to share this energy with others, especially those who feel forgotten. She hopes that someday, her artwork might find someone in pain, brush the dust from their soul, and help them take another step forward.
Summer and Orange | Acrylic
$9,000
24 X 18
This painting depicts a young girl peeling oranges sitting cross-legged next to a curtain in summer, leaning against the heat to cool off. The color scheme of the picture is high, and the bright oranges, the girl's fresh clothes and the gray and white tone environment outline the summer atmosphere. Warm and cold tones complement each other, just like the season of "summer", where the sun is shining but surrounded by trees, and it is this exuberance that the artist captures uniquely in summer.
The theme of vitality is central to Emma’s artistic philosophy. To her, life is incomplete and often filled with the tension of unfulfilled desires, emotional upheaval, and difficult choices. She believes art has the power to gently redeem this brokenness. Its energy is subtle but unwavering. As Emma puts it, art is not merely ornamental—it may or may not be redemptive, but it always carries meaning.
Whisper | Acrylic
$4,000
18 X 12
The painting captures a look of a woman with ruddy cheeks, silky eyes, and slightly open lips, as if a lover has blushed slightly after whispering in her ear. The artist keenly captures the subtlety of the ephemeral moment, and this ingenuity makes this painting special.
This current body of work is her first as a freelance artist. It is a deeply personal series born from her lived experiences and convictions about the redemptive potential of art. In this collection, Emma expresses both the power and the stillness of life. Her focus on women reflects their nurturing strength and emotional depth, especially in the quiet, unseen moments of daily existence.
This painting depicts a woman in a floral dress, leaning in a room at night, her black curly hair and bright eyes set off even brighter, brown skin and beautiful facial features reflect the unique mysterious temperament of Monica (the woman in the painting), like a pearl in the dark night, shining with the vitality of women.
Monica | Acrylic
$7,500
32 X 16
“My autism began to improve significantly after starting piano and painting.”
Jane and Lily | Acrylic
$12,800
40 X 28
The painting depicts the camaraderie between women. The backs of two women with very different styles are depicted, one is fair-skinned and well-behaved, the other is wild and tough, but they merge with each other like twin flowers and rely on each other. The two of them sat with their hands in a relaxed manner, and at first glance they seemed to be at ease when the two little sisters were resting and talking. This is the unique friendship between women, soft but firm.
Emma chooses to depict women in restful poses, using soft color palettes and static compositions to reflect their inner resilience and gentleness. She captures emotional tension through posture, expression, and atmosphere—inviting the viewer to feel the stillness while sensing the life flowing underneath. Her approach, which she describes as “static braking,” invites a pause that reveals motion within stillness.
The painting depicts a classical and noble Asian woman, with a graceful posture and misty eyes, languid as a cat. Her jet-black curls are complemented by ornate earrings, exuding a noble and elegant feminine charm.
Iris | Acrylic
$7,000
20 X 20
To Emma, painting is the art of capturing moments. She sees each frame as an opportunity to leave traces of life—using ordinary scenes to express both softness and strength. While dynamic, passionate images have their place, she believes quiet compositions are better suited for conveying complex emotional textures. Her work stands as a testament to the strength found in silence, and to the healing energy of beauty experienced without noise.
Winter | Acrylic
$5,500
16 X 16
The painting depicts a winter day in which a woman is nestled under a quilt in a lamb'swool pajama, and the thick quilt is embroidered with navy blue patterns, which can be perceived at a glance The chill of winter. However, the face of the woman in the painting is not pale, but the ruddy kind reveals a pleasantness, which shows that the woman is not cold. This feeling of warmth and stability in winter is also the most happy time in winter. Winter is not only cold, but so is life.
“Art reached me when nothing else in the world could.”
Emma Song Yunci
@emmasongyunci
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