Misty Bennett is a painter living in Birmingham, Alabama. Her abstract paintings are based on landscapes and waterfalls with an emphasis on texture, movement and mark-making. Her work is about memory and experience, and the way that the two affect each other. She was born and raised in Idaho, and the landscape of the West continues to influence her work today. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design (B.F.A. 1996) and the University of Georgia (M.F.A. 2002) in Drawing and Painting, she has taught painting at the University of Montevallo in Alabama since 2003. Her paintings have been widely exhibited in galleries and museums across the Southeast and are part of the permanent collection of the University of Georgia, the College of Osteopathic Medicine (Dothan, AL) and Carmichael Library at the University of Montevallo.