Malcolm Rains

Rains was born in Bristol, England in 1947. His family, seeking better opportunities than postwar England could offer, emigrated to Canada in 1955. He became a Canadian citizen and still resides there with his wife and two children. Rains’ early training was in architecture, which he studied at the University of Detroit and the University of Toronto. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1974, where he received a conceptual art education and concentrated exclusively on sculpture. Rains likes to work in series. After deciding upon a theme, Rains will do a number of paintings investigating the subject in depth. This method of working in series, combined with his practice of eliminating all unnecessary elements from his work, allows Rains to capture the essence of his subjects.