This artist lets her son paint on canvas then copies his strokes I Melissa Bohn

Melissa Bohn’s paintings don’t begin with a plan, they begin with feeling. And sometimes, they begin with her son. In one of her most personal works, she lets him paint freely on the canvas, then returns to echo his marks, building a shared visual language between instinct and experience. What emerges is something deeply alive—layers of emotion, movement, and connection that can’t be forced. Her work holds both chaos and care, shaped by motherhood, memory, and the courage to let go of control an