笔名燚林、禾少白，教授，中国美术家协会会员。1944年出生于上海，1960年起求学于上海市美术专科学校，于1966年大学毕业。历任上海大学副教授、上海东方文化学院美术系主任、上海电影艺术学院会展系及会展设计中心主任、上海市政府评审专家、中国管理科学研究院研究员、上海电影艺术学院学科领头人。
    中国画作品多次参展全国美展和国内外艺术交流展，曾获“上海美术大展”一等奖，“中华全国总工会优秀创作奖”，“全国职工画展”二等奖、优秀创作奖，“文化部国际中国画展”一等奖，“全国第二届中国花鸟画展”优秀创作奖等奖项。多次应邀赴日本、美国、加拿大举办个人画展。作品多被中国美协、上海市美协、博物馆、美术馆及五星级宾馆和国内外藏家收藏。中国画作品《雁山观瀑》作为国礼由政府礼赠前南斯拉夫总统。
    出版有《穆益林画集》、《穆益林现代帛画精选》。自1983年以来，致力于中国古老帛画的继承与研究，发掘和利用帛的优异性能，创造出独特的现代帛画艺术，为中国帛画在现代国际画坛上的独树一帜作出贡献。

Mu Yilin who creates his works under the pseudonym of Yilin or Heshaobai is a professor, a member of China Artists Association. Born in 1944 in Shanghai, he studied at Shanghai Fine Arts School since 1960 and graduated in 1966. He has successively served as associate professor of Shanghai University, dean of the department of fine arts in Shanghai Oriental Culture College, dean of the exhibition department and the exhibition center of Shanghai Film Art Academy, evaluation expert of Shanghai municipal government, researcher of China Academy of Management Science. and academic pacemaker of Shanghai Film Art Academy. His Chinese paintings were presented at the National Fine Art Exhibitions and the Domestic and International Art Exchange Exhibitions for many times and has ever won the first prize at Shanghai Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1979. and been awarded excellent creation prize by All China Federation of Trade Unions at the same year. He has also won the second prize and excellent creation prize in the National Exhibition of Chinese paintings and the first prize in the International Exhibition of Chinese Paintings opened by the Ministry of Culture and the excellent creation prize in the 2nd Exhibition Flower and Bird Paintings. He had been invited to Japan, America and Canada to hold private painting exhibitions. Besides being collected by collectors at home and abroad. his works are mostly collected by the China Artists Association, the ShanghaiArtistsAssociation, governmentagencies, museums, art galleries as well as
five-star hotels. His Chinese painting Waterfalls over Yan Mountain was presented to the president of Yugoslavia by China as a national gift. His publications are Mu Yilin Painting Collections and Mu Yilin Modern Silk Painting Collections. He devoted himself to the inheriting and research on Chinese silk painting since 1983 created special modern silk painting art and carried it forward in the world's art circles.