Evelyn Munro (b. 2002) is a visual artist based in Glasgow, Scotland and a 2025 graduate of the Glasgow School of Art.

Evelyn works primarily with oil paint on canvas, drawn to the medium’s physicality, slowness, and historical weight. Her practice blends traditional figurative and portrait painting with contemporary imagery. She draws inspiration from a wide range of archival photographic sources, filmic imagery, theatre sets, and period interiors. Her process begins with this visual material, which is collaged and reimagined as drawings before becoming paintings. She works with underpainting, controlled palettes, and layering to build atmosphere and depth. Sections of her paintings are often left unfinished, creating a contrast between drawn and fully rendered areas.

Each painting centres on a solitary figure within a constructed narrative space, often caught in an ambiguous or tense moment to create an atmosphere that is both disquieting and melancholy. Across the work, there’s a quiet tension between the figures and their surroundings; rooms that suggest stories, but never fully reveal them, leaving the viewer to imagine the truth of the events unfolding.

The human-animal relationship plays a symbolic role, with animals acting as extensions of the central figures’ inner lives. The presence of the animals introduces a surreal, destabilising energy, hinting at something primal beneath the surface. The interiors are sumptuous and classical, evoking the corrupting power of money or decadent rituals, or the descent into depravity and cruelty.

Evelyn’s work invites reflection on power, behaviour, and the thin line between reality and performance or sanity and insanity, with storytelling at the forefront.