About the Artist

Devan Horton is a Northern Kentucky artist with a passion for sustainability who creates paintings promoting environmental mindfulness and awareness.

Beginning her career as a traditional oil painter, she has recently radically changed her art practice to one that is sustainable using mostly foraged botanical pigments. In 2024, her series, Penchant, was featured at Studio Kroner in Cincinnati, in an exhibition and fundraising event called Trash Talk, which benefited three local sustainability organizations.

In 2025, she co-curated another environmentally themed group exhibition at Studio Kroner called, All Else Pales 2, featuring regional artists like John Sabraw and Albertus Gorman which hosted many events intersecting the arts, environment, and community.

Most recently her solo exhibition, Tending Stems, opened in August 2025 at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center as part of the New Woman Artist Residency program that she was awarded last year.

She has also completed residency programs at United Plant Savers in Rutland, Ohio in October of 2024 and at Friends of Black Rock, a conservation organization in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada in 2021.

For the past two years, Devan has served as art curator for the Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit. In 2023 she was a recipient of the Kentucky Foundation for Women's Art Meets Activism grant. These funds were used to create non-toxic plantable art media, using materials like goldenrod and walnut for paint and handmade paper filled with pollinator seeds, which she asked her community to create pieces of art that were then planted in a vacant lot in Bellevue, Kentucky. That lot is now a blooming pollinator haven. She was just awarded the 2026 Artist Enrichment grant also through Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Activism, collectiveness, and a love of the natural world have remained themes in Devan's work since college and through her work she hopes to convince others that even through the endless social and economic issues compounding around us, our planet is always of the utmost importance.

www.devanhorton.com
devanhortonart@gmail.com