BIO

ABOUT

Evelyn Rapin is a UK / Canadian artist living in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her paintings are frequently based on musical themes, however other genres are produced on occasion.

She has participated in many exhibitions, and her work is in collections including Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and the University of Western Ontario.

Her images have been in various publications such as JazzTimes Magazine and Musicworks Magazine, and used by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the MIT Symphony Orchestra to name a few.

Evelyn has a Bachelor of Fine Art, Hons., awarded from Queens University in Kingston, ON.

ARTIST STATEMENT

For years I have studied the aesthetics/ psychology of music and translated musical ideas into two dimensions by employing the painter’s elements of form, i.e., line, texture, shape, volume etc. Composers also rely on certain devices such as rhythm, tone colour, repetition etc., to structure musical arrangements, which can be visualized/ imagined as form.

This is validated by composers/ writers such as Aaron Copland, Nicholas Cook and Phillip Glass. Descriptions of musical creativity unite this artist’s imagination with a composer’s language of inner expression.

Making the invisible visible is central to my music inspired works, and the writings of these experts have supplied infinite inspiration.

COLLECTIONS

Bank of Montreal
Canadian Business Development Bank
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Kingston General Hospital
Kingston Public Health Unit
Legasys Corporation
Queen’s University School of Business
Richard Ivey School of Business
University of Western Ontario
Vintex Inc.

MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS

Ontario Society of Artists
Collage Artists of America
Federation of Canadian Artists
Organization of Kingston Women Artists