谢琰1936年生。早年从林千石学习书法。从1968年至1999年任职卑诗大学亚洲图书馆，负责中文部，退休后专心研习书艺及从事翻译。1985年与1995年与日本书法家先后两次筹备及参展「翰墨因缘」 - 现代中日书法联展。作品被加拿大立文明博物馆收藏。

Tse Yim (b. 1936)studied Chinese calligraphy under Lam Chin-Shek. From 1968 until his retirement in 1999, he was the Chinese librarian in the Asian Library at the University of British Columbia. He now devotes himself to the study of calligraphy and engages in translation. In 1985 and subsequently in 1995, he crated and participated in Karma of the Brush, a contemporary Chinese-Japanese calligraphy exhibition. One of his works has been collected by the Canadian Museum of Civilization.