Artist Biography
Kayla Hanson is an artist, born and raised in Idaho, Kayla grew up spending a lot of time outdoors. She has had a passion for art since childhood and is heavily inspired by the beauty of the natural environment. Kayla received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree with an emphasis on painting and a minor in art history and visual cultural studies from Boise State University in 2021 and is a K-12 art educator. Kayla works with oil paint as her primary medium as she loves the action of pushing and pulling paint, and experimenting with brushwork and impasto paint. She is influenced by the interaction of light and color in the natural world, experiences, and the meaning of unraveling one’s unique interpretation of memories of “place”. Kayla is concerned with the preservation of the natural world and the impacts of development on Idaho lands. Kayla is also constantly inspired by art historical references and is critically thinking about these ideas in a contemporary context in relation to her own experiences. Kayla has public artwork in Idaho and has shown work in many group and solo exhibitions locally and regionally since 2016.