Halin de Repentigny was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1959. As a boy he demonstrated an interest and natural ability as an artist.He started painting with watercolours when he was six and began using oils at the age of ten.Exposure to the styles and techniques of Impressionists Maurice Lebon and Marcel Favreau, made a significant impact on Halin. He abandoned a conventional education, and without any formal art training merged his extraordinary skills of observation with canvas and oils, and began to record the world around him.By the age of fifteen, he was showing his work professionally at expositions and cafes.

This public exposure led to mural commissions and eventually to more shows in Quebec. The influence of Emily Carr and the Group of Seven are evident in Halin’s work and by 1997 he would be showing alongside them.

Since 1983 he has shown hundreds of paintings in various galleries and exhibitions in the United States, Germany, Virgin Islands and in Canada. Halin’s “call of the wild” sounded in Quebec in the Gaspe region. Following his childhood dream of becoming a trapper he left Quebec in 1981. With only his backpack, brushes and his rifle he traveled to Canada’s Yukon Territory where his presence has permanently enriched the landscape.