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Interdisciplinary arts inspired by folklore, natural history, & subconscious fantasy
Bio photo of artist Evvie "Evvin" Marin

Bio

Massachusetts artist Evvie Marin explores themes of folklore, natural history, and subconscious fantasy through gothic folk-rock music, and richly illustrated lyrical writing. Evvie draws inspiration from macabre art history, curiosities, marginalia, aestheticism, symbolism, Golden Age book illustration, regional landscapes, and timeless, spooky old lore. 

 

Evvie has a B.A. in set design and studio painting from Smith college, where she studied stagecraft, historical theater, and the aesthetics of reflected and distorted light. In visual art, she specializes in traditional watercolor and brushed ink painting. Recent works combine classic hand painting with digital ink and photo collage techniques, in a modern-traditional illustration style that mimics stained glass.

From 2015-2025, Evvie blogged her deck design journey while teaching solo tarot for creative misfits through Interrobang Tarot and Patreon. Artwork from Evvie’s tarot decks was included in TAROT, by Jessica Hundley of Taschen’s Library of Esoterica, released August 2020. 

Artist Statement

I seem always caught between holistic, lush dysphoria and tender fascination. I create in attempts to make lyrical if not rational sense of inner and outer landscapes. I like to fidget with the symbolic codes culture recycles over centuries, morphing with each telling like a record crackling into noise at the needle’s kiss, or memory warped through frequent retrieval into marbled, oneiric pageant of its history. These fluid things want fluid crafts—watercolor, brushed ink, and gouache—textured, gauzy media, on call for runny chaos or intense precision, who let all the layers and errors show through to the surface.

I work through symbol because metaphor and analogy make shiny and relatable what’s complex, uneasy, or emergent. Symbol transforms the personal and ephemeral into curios robust enough for display. Symbol obfuscates while revealing, and embroiders while fortifying what it catalogs. Symbol crams the whole maple back into the samara, and tucks it, spring-coiled and syrup-sticky, yet apparently weightless, into the beholder’s hungry palm.

Watercolor Illustration: Self Portrait With Mockingbird and Ferns by Evvie Marin.
Photo: Coiled tree roots and fallen leaves, exposed from underground by stream-bank erosion.
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