CAMERON DAVIS

Cameron Davis is a painter, educator, and ecological thinker whose work explores the relationships between humans and the living world. She engages with frameworks — both conceptual and formal — that situate humans within the broader web of life. Rooted in questions such as what is nature?, her paintings serve as acts of perceptual and ecological inquiry. Using pattern, primarily drawn from plant life, Davis constructs improvisational visual ecosystems that echo the relational dynamics of living systems. Inspired by thinkers like Andreas Weber, she views painting as a medium through which mutual transformation, emergence, and interdependence are made visible.

Davis's practice is deeply intuitive, an ongoing effort to perceive and represent our shared subjectivity with other organisms. Each work is a meditation on co-existence — a felt exploration of how color, form, surface, and mark become interwoven in ways that mirror the structures of life itself.

Davis holds  an M.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute, a B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Vermont, and also studied at the Schumacher College, Institute of Ecological Studies in Totnes, UK.  She served as Senior Lecturer Emerita at the University of Vermont in the Department of Art & Art History and as an Environmental Program Affiliate. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and her influence as an artist-scholar continues through her teaching, mentorship, and engagement at the intersection of art and environmental awareness. Davis has spent more than 40 years developing a painting practice grounded in the interconnection of all life forms.