Influenced by Antiquity
Creating in a modern world
with a little alchemy & the science of art
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 has allowed Laura to create a lens that allows her to create her work and connect with others whose aim is to develop their craft and experience.
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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 work, students, and clients.
You won’t be the same once you meet her ;)
using her skills toCreate Original Art
Educate
Lecture
Consulting, Discover and Systemize experiences
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Laura Works with a combinationn
Research
Space and Tools
Inuition and Creative Flow
Proven practice methods
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Laura aspires to be apart of the movement toward craft and intellectural growth connected to experience and art. Collaborating with Laura can happen in a variety of way
Teaching abroad
Host a Course
Online Learning “ digital studio visit”
Online/In-person Teacher Training for curious adult artists and educators
Theory based origins
and a longing
to SEE
Laura studied in contemporary art schools as well as atelier-based academies. Some of those experiences were with Studio Arts Center International 2008, University of Tennessee Chattanooga 20010-2011, Florence Aacadmey of Art 2012, and returning to FAA 2023-2025 for her Masters in Studio Art.
During the interim years of her art studies Laura earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and human movement science while living in Seattle enjoying the pacific northwest’s natural enviornment. There she ran her movement studio business.
The integration of her observational studies in art and the figure is seamlessly related to her intuitive ability to see the body in motion and to utilize these skills for medicinal movement. These skills create an energetic awareness in the art studio curated to the work at hand.
The Alchemy of it all ….
Laura is a rigorous researcher with an artistic practice, technical skills in teaching and training, and a creative systems thinker who addresses curating & inventing spaces with research.
2026 Custum House Exhibitor , with American Women Artist , "Of Mark and Meaning" Show
2026 Custum House Exhibitor , with American Women Artist , "Of Mark and Meaning" Show
BIO
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 ran teacher trainings and physio therapist trainings in 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.
Commissions
Creating contemporary portraits that honor classical techniques
Study & Mentorship
Observe.Work. Process. Grow
Though teaching principles are part of Laura’s approach to learning, she blends those tools with intuitive and expressive forms to give the student their primary mode of operating with their tools.
