Erin Voisey is a multidisciplinary, queer artist with a primary focus on painting and illustration. Born in Scugog, Ontario, Erin grew up drawing, sketching, and journaling from a young age. They began to take a deeper interest in painting, illustration, animation, and digital art in their late teens and pursued a higher education in fine arts at OCAD University in Toronto, graduating in 2021 and moving back to durham region.

“I would describe my work as “whimsical chaos”. I spend a lot of time filling up and packing the pages of Moleskine journals with bright colours, humanoid faerie creatures, and small blips of poetry. The imagery I create there usually informs my larger works. Imagined creatures consistently show up in my work and I like to think they express a multitude of motifs and energies. I like to use these creatures to express duality and liminality in whichever form it takes — the space between reality and dreams, melancholy and mania, the earthly plane and the astral, the masculine and feminine — in between and outside.

I aim to create contrast in my work by utilizing traditional painting techniques and combining that with bolder, illustrative qualities. I feel satisfied in my work when I see the harmony between these techniques . I’m also passionate about 2D animation, character design, and video games, and receive a lot of inspiration from those mediums.”