Laura is an artist making work that unites percieved reaility and experiences of felt sense. Using inspiration from artists who express that drawing and painting are informed practices expressed through intuitive execution of tools.
“Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible – giving it form and bringing it within reach."
- Gerhard Richter
“I have endeavoured to show that there are two aspects from which the objective world can be apprehended. There is the purely mental perception founded chiefly on knowledge derived from our sense of touch associated with vision, whose primitive instinct is to put an outline round objects as representing their boundaries in space. And secondly, there is the visual perception, which is concerned with the visual aspects of objects as they appear on the retina; an arrangement of colour shapes, a sort of mosaic of colour. And these two aspects give us two different points of view from which the representation of visible things can be approached.”
- Harold Speed
Laura Bohon is a painter based in Nashville, Tennessee. Having studied at the Florence Academy of Art, her practice is rooted in a visual approach to drawing and color theory, with a focus on oil painting from observation. Her work is figurative in aesthetic but driven by a phenomenological approach to perception, interested in what is felt before it is resolved. She has exhibited in Tennessee museums and internationally, including at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy.
