2026 Custom House Exhibitor, with American Women Artist, "Of Mark and Meaning" Show

Influenced by Antiquity

Creating in a modern world

Laura’s been exploring art, the human experience through anatomical study, healing movement & art, and the expanding overlaps between these fields since 2008. Historical knowledge is more than fascinating; it’s a compass for higher education and human evolution. Loving research and Italy allows Laura to create a lens she uses to shape her work and connect with others who want to develop their craft and experiences.

Laura is painter, drafts woman, educator, and system thinking artist
with 18 years of experience to back up her work and research.

The result of her work, explorations, and techniques is a deeply humanist approach that she aims to revitalize in her artwork, teaching, and client work.
Using her skills to
- Create Original Studio works
- Educate
- Lecture
- Consulting, Discover, and Systemize experiences
Laura works with a combination
- Studio Experience
- Research
- Space and Tools
- Intuition and Creative Flow
- Proven practice methods
Laura aspires to be part of the movement toward craft and intellectual growth rooted in experience and art. Collaborating with Laura can happen in a variety of ways
- Teaching
- Host a Course
- Online Learning “digital studio visit”
- Online/In-person Teacher Training for adult artists and educators

Theory based origins

and a longing

to SEE

Laura studied in contemporary art schools as well as atelier-based academies. She studied at Studio Arts Center International (2008), the University of Tennessee Chattanooga (2010-2011), the Florence Academy of Art (2012), and returned to FAA (2023-2025) for her Master’s in Studio Art.

During the interim years of her art studies, Laura earned a Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology and human movement science while living in Seattle, enjoying the Pacific Northwest’s natural environment. There she ran her movement studio business.

The integration of her observational studies in art and the figure is woven together, allowing her to perceive the body in motion.

Close-up of a person drawing a detailed portrait of a face on a large sheet of paper taped to a wall, with a pencil in hand.

Teaching & Mentorship

Studying with Laura

Higher education in the United States and abroad

Continuing Education workshops and training for Art Educators

Online and In-person training for creative professionals, individual artists, interest in art.

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GALLERY

A pencil sketch of a woman's face with light shading, focusing on the eyes, nose, and lips, with a large floppy hat around her head.

A detailed graphite pencil drawing of a woman with long hair, expressive eyes, and a warm smile, resting her head on her hand.

Commissions

A detailed pencil sketch of a young woman's face with long hair, looking slightly to the side.

Creating contemporary portraits that honor classical techniques

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Autumn Park Painting

Are you interested in learning to paint outdoors? Bring your curiosity and tools & get started.

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Current Project

PORTALS

of

PERCEPTION

BIO

A pencil drawing by Laura Bohon, of a face looking upward with a hat on and with open eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth, on a white background.

Close-up of a Nike sneaker with white and gray colors on a textured black background.

A painting of a blue vase with a round, reddish-orange ball balanced on top, set against a soft, muted background.

Laura Bohon is an American figurative artist working at the intersection of classical technique and embodied perception. Through drawing and painting, she creates what she calls "a tactile archaeology of presence" and works that translate the quiet accumulation of sensory experience, memory, and research into a 2D visual form.

Trained in both contemporary and classical traditions, Laura combines rigorous observational practice with somatic awareness. After studying contemporary painting and drawing at ETSU and UTC, where she focused on phenomenology and color theory according to Josef Albers, she completed the drawing year of the Florence Academy of Art certificate program in 2012 and her Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology in 2021, She returned to Florence for the academy's Master of Arts program (2023-2025), During her time at FAA she was awarded the merit scholar scholarship in 2025.

Her work has been shaped by a decade-long investigation into the body's intelligence. As a former movement therapy practitioner, she ran a studio in Seattle. Laura studied under kinesiologist Marie José Bloom-Lawrence, professional dancer Jennifer Gianni, neuropoetic coach Casey-Marie Herdt, and movement specialist Sydney Craig. She developed programs based on research and her own theory for self-care of spinal and full-body well-being. She held teacher training and physiotherapist training for her research. This embodied training informs her artistic practice, not just as a conceptual addition, but as a Renaissance inheritance where observation and physical awareness converge.

Laura's paintings and drawings explore the threshold between inner and outer worlds, asking: What does awareness yield when we create from sustained attention? Working slowly, she allows each piece to become both record and witness of transformation—sensory, somatic, archetypal.

An associate member of Oil Painters of America, American Women Artists, and the College Arts Association of America, Laura continues to push her practice toward tangible, connective experiences with objects, spaces, and people. In her teaching and facilitation work, she brings playful curiosity to the creative process, emphasizing the expansive potential of slowness and the marvel of seeing.

Laura has been awarded the Merit Scholar Award at the Florence Academy 2025, as well as a Merit Scholar Award from the New York Academy of Art for their Master of Fine Arts Graduate program 2026 and 2027. And she recently exhibited with the Customs House Museum’s exhibition Of Mark and Meaning, Feb - April 2026.