Lauchlin Toms is a Calgary-based painter and multidisciplinary artist working primarily in oil on canvas. His practice explores themes of mortality, spirituality, memory, emotional transformation, and psychological intensity through expressive and symbolic imagery. Drawing from abstraction, art brut, folk traditions, and the mythology of the North American West, his paintings investigate the tension between personal experience and collective mythmaking. Influenced by prairie landscapes, underground music culture, and intuitive mark-making, Toms creates emotionally charged works that blur the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. His practice is rooted in instinct, atmosphere, and materiality, often using distortion, gesture, and layered textures to explore vulnerability, alienation, and transcendence. Alongside his visual art practice, Toms has spent over a decade involved in independent music communities, touring extensively across North America and collaborating on multiple musical projects. This background continues to inform the rhythm, physicality, and emotional immediacy of his painting practice.