Rainville Studio is a queer trans non-binary design partnership between Sam and Ren Rainville..
A mixture of structure, design, aesthetics and composition is the backbone of their art. Rainville Studio exists to help people feel playful again, find joy in the day-to-day and to share trans joy with the community. The MORE LOVE concept has been iterated since 2015 between the two.
Hi! I’m Sam Michelle Rainville of Rainville Studio.
I am brightly colored and layered which comes out in my art. My often brightly colorful and at times sparkly paintings are filled with a multitude of mediums and medias, textured, with bits of written and drawn detail, and some obscuration. My woodwork is often connected to puns or an alternate take on an idea. My brightly colored assemblage evoke emotions, nostalgia, and self inspection.
My pieces illicit conversation starting, feeling, and play. I am moving towards larger works, teaching, and a public art practice as I seek to impact more people and help them connect to themselves and the world and community around them. I seek to remind others that we are most vibrant together. I interpret the human stories around me through my sensorial art. My goal is for us both to feel rather than be numb.
Current mediums of interest:
Public Art, Art education, graphic design, stickers, screenprinting, stained glass, painting, alcohol inks, and gelli printing.
I am a non-binary transgender, queer, parent, partner, artist, poet, educator, maker, and woodworker. Having PTSD and doing impactful mental health work for it, drives me to help de-stigmatize it. My diverse and adverse life experiences led to self evolution, reparenting while living multigenerational, and adapting to life with with chronic pain. I consider myself emerging; yet, I am a lifetime teacher, maker, and creative. I am authentic and direct.
I feel connection to others helps us process life’s grieving, joyful, mundane, or intense moments. I enjoy facilitating discussion and emotional connection, then integrating big feelings into writing, graphics, sculptures, or complex layering works.
Influences: grief, shared stories, chronic pain, aging, movement, typography, bright colors, murals, Japanese woodcuts, and art journaling.
Ren Rainville blurb to come
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