Hi, I’m Faye, founder of FEI TeamArt.
In 2020, I started my journey in personalized art education, offering one-on-one classes designed around each individual student in North America.
Before returning to education, I spent over eight years working in contemporary art museums, galleries, and the art market. During those years, I traveled between cities, worked with artists, visited exhibitions, and surrounded myself with different forms of creativity.
Coming from an academic art background, these experiences slowly changed the way I understood art.
I began to realize: Art is never only about learning how to draw.It is about how we see, how we think, and how we build our relationship with the world around us.
Over the past five years, this belief has been shaped and tested through my students. Many families trusted me with their children when they were only around seven years old. Today, some of them are teenagers preparing for high school, university, portfolios, and their future paths. I feel lucky that I was able to accompany them through some of their most important years of growth.
During this journey, I met so many different personalities.
Some students are quiet observers.
Some have endless imagination.
Some love drawing.
Some don’t necessarily love drawing — but they love ideas, stories, and art.
And I learned something very important: Teaching someone how to draw and teaching someone how to understand art are not exactly the same thing.
This is why FEI TeamArt has always focused on personalized learning. A standard course can teach a technique. A step-by-step lesson can teach you how to finish a picture. And those skills are valuable. But true art education takes much longer.It slowly shapes your aesthetic sense, your taste, your curiosity, your confidence, and eventually your own voice.
Learn From Collections (LFC)
The heart of FEI TeamArt is built around a philosophy I call: Learn From Collections. At first, this idea came from my years working with contemporary art collections. Museums, galleries, and great artworks taught me that learning happens when we truly observe, question, and connect. But over time, my understanding of “collection” became much wider. A collection is not only something inside a museum.It can be:
a painting you remember,
a photo you took,
a stone you picked up during a walk,
a leaf from a special moment,
an image you saved,
or a small piece of life that quietly stays with you.
Everything we collect shapes who we are. And everything we experience can become a starting point for creativity. Through LFC, I hope students learn not only from masters, but from the world around them.We explore artworks, history, visual culture, materials, personal memories, and everyday experiences. There is no single correct answer. The goal is not to create the same type of artist. The goal is to help each learner discover how they see, what they value, and what they want to express.
My relationship with traditional drawing skills has also changed over the years. Because of my own art school training, I experienced many years of strict foundational practice. When I first entered contemporary art, I questioned traditional training. I wondered are techniques limiting creativity? But after years of teaching, my thoughts changed again. I realized skills are never the problem. Drawing, painting, and techniques are simply tools. The real question is where do you want those tools to take you? Some people learn art to create professionally. Some people learn art to understand themselves. Both journeys are meaningful.
My father once told me: “When you feel lonely, draw.” I still remember this. Because art has always been more than a career for me.It is a way of living. It helps us find connections, understand ourselves, and discover that somewhere in this world, someone may have felt something similar.
A lifelong journey —beyond answers.
Written in Vancouver, Summer 2026
