September Feature Artist
Tiny Worlds in Resin: The Magical Art of Faryn Davis
Tucked away in a quiet backyard studio in Asheville, North Carolina, artist Faryn Davis creates entire worlds small enough to hold in the palm of your hand. Her work is a blend of meticulous craftsmanship, natural wonder, and a lifelong fascination with the stories hidden in the tiniest corners of the earth.
For over 20 years, Faryn has been working with resin—a notoriously tricky medium—and transforming it into dreamy, three-dimensional landscapes. Each piece is built layer by layer using hand-painted imagery and real, ethically sourced ephemera like grass, feathers, bones, lichen, and tiny bits of flora. Using toothpicks and ultra-fine brushes, she paints woodland creatures, magical symbols, and mysterious scenes that feel both ancient and otherworldly. These delicate dioramas are then suspended in clear epoxy, creating miniature portals into enchanted natural worlds.
Her art is rooted in childhood days spent exploring the farmland of western North Carolina, where a love of collecting odd and beautiful things—rocks, nests, leaves, bones—took hold early. That passion grew into an obsession with the natural sciences and the unseen layers of the world around us. Today, her inspirations span everything from ornithology and botany to relics, maps, weather patterns, and dreams.
Faryn studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and completed her BFA in sculpture at the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 2000, with additional studies in France, Italy, and Nepal. Her deep curiosity and global experiences come through in her work, which often blurs the line between science and mythology, reality and reverie.
After spending eight years in the Pacific Northwest, Faryn returned to her North Carolina roots with her husband, Eli, and their son, Milo Gray. From her studio hut, she now creates full time, and her work can be found in galleries and boutiques across the U.S. and internationally. She also travels to juried craft shows around the country, where collectors are drawn to the intimate scale and haunting beauty of her resin-encased worlds.
In an age of fast design and digital everything, Faryn Davis offers something rare: a slow, deliberate process that honors both the fragility and resilience of the natural world. Her pieces invite viewers to look closer, to pause, and to remember the magic in the details.