Taryn Boals is an emerging artist inspired by American Western landscapes and wildlife. Influenced by prehistoric cave paintings to French Impressionism, Boals is developing a contemporary visual language utilizing nitram liquid charcoal, a water-soluble update on the ancient medium, combined with mixed media elements and modernist expressionistic techniques, collectively creating sweeping compositions filled with the physical and emotional feeling of movement and resiliency, respectively. The fluid charcoal material juxtaposed with the highly structural design of strong, independent subject matters like a wild horse or moose gives an aesthetic that is timelessly primitive yet places Boals in the cannon of Western realist painters. Boals received her BFA from Montana State University and MFA from Northern Illinois University. While having been raised in the rural Midwest, Boals calls Jackson and the surrounding areas home today.