Kayla Hanson is a painter, born and raised in Idaho, Kayla grew up spending much time
outdoors. She has been passionate about painting since she was a child and is heavily
inspired by the beauty of the natural environment. Kayla received her bachelor’s in fine art
with an emphasis on painting and a minor in art history and visual cultural studies from Boise
State University in 2021 and is an art educator. Kayla works with oil paint as her primary
medium as she loves the action of pushing and pulling paint, and the interactions of
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 interpretations of
memories of “place”. Kayla has shown work in many group exhibitions as well as solo
exhibitions locally and regionally since 2016, her work has been featured on the cover of the
Boise Weekly and can be seen locally in Boise.