Born in Claremont, New Hampshire in 2002, Fallon’s love of nature was informed by the landscape of Western New Hampshire. The majestic mountains, dark woods and deep valleys served as her playground. Later, she drew artistic inspiration from the paintings of Maxfield Parrish, a member of the Cornish Colony of artists, who captured the luminous, dreamlike quality of the topography just miles from her birthplace.

She brought the same sensibility and color palette with her to Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where she received her BFA in Painting in 2024. After a foray into figure painting, she returned home to rediscover her connection with the outdoors, which she continues to investigate in her graduate studies at the California Institute of the Arts.

To make the move to California and the adjustments to being away from her family easier, she decided to bring some familiar company with her. The river rocks in her studio serve as both tangible reminders of home and sources of experimentation. Some are wrapped in black cord, others in copper wire using New England fishing net techniques. They are an expression of the artist’s fascination with the geology of her space.

These touchstones of her youth function as both sculptural objects for exploration as well as subject matter for the paintings in Glyphs and Stones. In her hands, these geological markers of her journey transform into meditations on memory and place. 

While Fallon likes to work intuitively, letting the painting take her where it wants to go, her self-imposed rigor suggests a maturity that belies her age. Her strict regimen of building up her canvas, layer by layer, letting each one dry before adding the next, is an exercise in patience.

“Sometimes it’s hard because you get this energy from everybody around you to get to something,” she explains. “I find myself saying, ‘No, I need to properly wait and see where this is going.’”