Bio
Growing up surrounded by the vast prairie of the Canadian north and tales of faraway places, Renée Robyn has chased the perfect backdrop around the world. Approaching photography like a treasure hunter, her compositions are uniquely cinematic, often becoming pieces of a bigger world represented beyond reality. Renée’s style is easily recognizable and distinctly her own.
Expertly blending fact, fiction, and a little digital alchemy, she works with tech giants Adobe, Wacom, Viewsonic, Elinchrom and Intel. Her work has also been commissioned by entertainment icons like Nita Strauss, Housecore Horror, The Alberta Ballet and others.
Comfortable facing down gale force winds, climbing fog-shrouded mountains or fast pace commercial studios, her work is impressive and committed. An expert retoucher, Renée applies the same level of commitment to post-processing leveraging her mastery of colour theory, editing, light, and shadow in the digital realm of Photoshop.
“Excited to represent Canada on the world stage alongside so many talented artists!”
2025 – Illustrative Portrait
World Top 10
Walking the barren landscape, she is the visual representation of resilience, vulnerability and strength that is shaped by the environment she belongs to. Cloaked in furs and natural fabrics, she channels the ancestral roots that connect her to the earth, honoring those who walked before us.
2024 – Illustration / Digital Art
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to photograph Tino in this handmade gown by Fairytas. As it sometimes happens, it took me a long time to figure out what kind of environment to place her in, until I saw the castles of ice when I got home to Canada. The crisp snow and dripping ice structures I felt complimented the ethereal beauty of my model and her outfit. The result is a place and story I would have dreamed about as a child.
2024 – Illustrative Portrait
I first met Sheldon dressed as a pirate in the province of Newfoundland. I was instantly inspired by the level of detail in his handmade outfits and asked if some of their pirate crew would ever grant me some time in the studio one on one. The thought popped in my head of a series of portraits of these scallywags plotting some kind of revenge around a fire. Two lights, some yellow construction paper for bounce and a little digital magic later, the series came to life, and they’re some of my favourite character portraits to date.