Faryn Davis originally hails from the hills of western Appalachia, where she grew up in a rural mountain setting among cows, endless tobacco fields, abandoned apple orchards, and dirt roads. There she spent many days wandering and collecting leaves, tadpoles, bugs, feathers, nests, bones, vials of dirt, clumps of moss, scraps of paper, and other found ephemera and hoarding them away in handmade books and small boxes.She continues to be a "collector of small powerful things" in her mixed media art which often incorporates found organic elements into illuminated shrine-like forms, resin paintings, and in her line of resin jewelry. Her recent works combine thick, poured layers of resin with misty painted scenes populated by birds, bears, foxes and other creatures in dreamlike settings, and real embedded objects such as grass, eggs, bones, and plants. They are inspired by the beauty and mystery of the natural world and are infused with tension, rest, beauty, and longing.

She pursued art from an early age and studied at North Carolina School of the Arts, in France, Italy, and Nepal, and received a BFA degree in sculpture at the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 2000. She is often inspired by: birds and ornithology, dioramas, road trips, narrow trails, pine trees, foggy islands, hot springs, maps, marching bands, tea, snow, tundra, autumn, blackberries, rosemary, dirt, farmy locales, iconography, ancient history, old-fashioned things, wooden spoons, relics, owl pellets, old photos, geology, small mammals, dreams, mehndi henna art, origami, and making fires.