Artist Biography

Christine Deschenes, also known as Missphoton, is an emerging artist, but also a photographer, and a graphic designer, originally from Quebec, now based in Ontario.

After years of designing for corporate clients, she reconnected with her creative roots, turning inward to explore more personal, emotional landscapes through digital illustration.

She creates thought provoking characters and images, sometimes by combining the use of her own photography and textures with digital painting in Procreate. These works explore vulnerability as strength and resilience as a path to freedom.

Drawing from life’s transitions and the quiet battles within, her art seeks to bring inner shadows into light, undivided and whole.

Christine’s series Metamorphosis traces journeys from cocooned fragility to winged resilience through moth-winged figures, while Silence confronts imposed muteness and quiet endurance behind industrial doors and abandoned trains. Christine’s pieces invite viewers to recognize their own capacity for resilience and the unexpected beauty born from change.

Her 2025 exhibitions include a solo show in Toronto, and a group show in Hamilton, Ontario.

Artist Statement

My tagline captures it best: I explore vulnerability as a strength, and resilience as a path to freedom.

As a digital artist and photographer, I create mixed-media portraits and characters, sometimes adding my own photographs of weathered textures—rusted metal, aged wood, forgotten stone—with digital painting in Procreate. These backgrounds are metaphors for the scars and interruptions we carry. This technique allows me to give visual voice to what was once muted or suppressed.

My work is driven by personal experiences of transformation through trauma and change—the impermanence of life, the need to stay grounded amid constant movement, and the beauty that emerges when we face our inner shadows without division.

Series like Metamorphosis trace the journey from fragility to transformation, using moth-winged figures to embody fragile yet unbreakable strength. In contrast, Silence confronts the weight of imposed muteness—when injustice, fear, or violence forces words inward—through portraits trapped behind industrial doors and abandoned trains, yet refusing to disappear entirely.

I make this work because I believe art can illuminate the places we hide from ourselves and others. By bringing shadows into light, undivided and whole, my pieces invite viewers to recognize their own quiet endurance and the possibility of freedom beyond it. Ultimately, I create to remind us—and myself—that vulnerability is not weakness, but the raw material of true power.