Angelene Humphrey is a Canadian painter whose work explores themes of motherhood, memory, spiritual renewal, and the enduring imprint of grief and love. Born in downtown Toronto in 1983, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from OCAD University in 2007. Since then, she has worked as a painter, scenic artist for film and television, and arts educator, designing and leading creative programs for youth and adults in both urban and rural communities.

Humphrey has taught drawing and painting in Sudbury—at Cambrian College, through private instruction at Watercrow Studio, and in community settings. In 2024, she completed a Bachelor of Education from Nipissing University, and she currently teaches middle school visual arts in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.

Her artistic practice is rooted in personal experience, particularly the loss of her firstborn daughter in infancy. Her 2020 solo exhibition, A Geography of Grief-Love, held at the McEwen School of Architecture, featured a series of striking ultramarine blue portraits that offered a raw and tender meditation on grief and the layered emotional terrain of motherhood. Humphrey’s more recent work has evolved to explore themes of healing, belonging, and connection to place, inspired by her move to the East Coast and a growing interest in ancestry and sacred traditions.

Her paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally in Naples, Florida and London, England. In 2020, she was a featured artist in the Up Here! Festival’s Power Up Project, transforming a city power box into a vivid, mythic seascape starring her daughters and a treasure-laden underwater world. Her 2024 contribution to Nuit Blanche marked a playful turn toward Pop Art, with repeated self-portraits evoking the longing to rediscover childhood joy amidst the pressures of adult life. Through both figurative and abstract work, Humphrey invites viewers to reflect on the quiet power of place, memory, and lineage—how the landscapes we inhabit can stir spiritual renewal, anchor us in belonging, and reconnect us with those who came before.