Artist Bio

Faryn Davis originally hails from the hills of Western North Carolina where she grew up in a rural mountain setting among cows, endless tobacco fields, and dirt roads. There she spent many days wandering and collecting plants, tadpoles, bugs, feathers, nests, bones, vials of dirt, scraps of paper, and other biological what-nots and hoarding them away in small boxes.

She continues to be a "collector of small, powerful things" in her mixed media art which often incorporates found organic elements into illuminated, shrine-like forms, resin paintings, and jewelry. She pursued art-making from an early age and studied at North Carolina School of the Arts, in France, Italy, and Nepal, and received a BFA in sculpture at University of North Carolina at Asheville in 2000. She has lived in Seattle for over five years and creates work full-time out of her Greenwood studio.