Yang, currently assistant director of NTNU's Cultural and Creative Industries Center, built his reputation painting still lifes before moving into ecological painting in the early 1980s. Yang's work has gradually evolved, passing through periods of traditional animal art and wildlife art before achieving its present-day focus on ecological art.
現任師大「文化創藝產學中心」副主任的楊恩生，早期以靜物畫聞名，1980 年代初轉入生態繪畫領域，由傳統的動物藝術、野生動物藝術，逐漸演變成今日的生態藝術，堪稱國內生態藝術家先驅。