Devan Horton

Wade

Oil on canvas

"All the work from my series "Penchant" brings to light our cultural obsession with consumption and waste. If we were forced to deal with our own trash, without it being taken out of sight once per week, maybe we would be more motivated to change."

– Devan Horton

About the artist

Devan Horton

Devan Horton is a Northern Kentucky artist who creates paintings that promote mindfulness and awareness of the impact humans have on their environment. Recently, she held a solo exhibition and fundraising event at Studio Kroner in Cincinnati, Ohio titled “Trash Talk” which benefited three local sustainability organizations. In 2021, she completed a residency program through Friends of Black Rock, a conservation organization in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Devan is also the curator of artwork for Green Umbrella's Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit. Activism, collectiveness, and a love of the natural world have remained themes in Devan's work since college. She has also recently launched a series of experiments with sustainable, foraged pigments and regenerative canvas materials.