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Contemporary Art | Simone Scholes Art
Simone Scholes (@simonescholesart) • Instagram photos and videos
Simone began her career at Art College, majoring in textile design, but was very quickly pulled onto a different track in the corporate world of the fashion industry. In a serendipitous turn, her corporate career brought her on a journey to Vietnam many years later, where she quite unexpectedly fell in love with a painting hanging in a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City.
It sparked a new creative interest in Simone, and where she had mainly worked with watercolor previously, it intrigued her to explore oil paint. Using bold brushstrokes and plenty of Linseed oil, she plays with familiar shapes and light to create different personas. Using a combination of materials and textures, her fashion and textile-inspired artwork aims to capture both the outward beauty and the inner mystery of human beings.
Her developed, recognizable style has been in numerous local New England shows and publications, including the Attleboro Arts Museum’s 8 Visions and Boston City Hall Emerging Artist show.Awards 2022 – Green Goddess – 3rd Place Hull artists juried show 2022 – Lady in the Window – Jurors choice award Small Stones Art Festival 2023 – In a Moment – 1st Place Small Stones Art Festival 2024 – Be Here Now – 2nd Place Patterns and Abstraction, RI Watercolor Society 2024 – Varied works – 2nd Place & People’s choice award – Krikorian Gallery at Worcester Center for Crafts 2024 – Magec – Best representational, Attleboro Arts Museum
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“The Salon Series in the Library of the Brenton Hotel” is designed to give Brenton Hotel guests and the Newport community the chance to speak with local artists and gallery owners, learning more about Newport, RI’s vibrant fine art scene.
The Newport Artist Collective’s “Salon Series @ The Brenton Hotel” is held every Thursday night from 5:00 to 7:00 and highlights a different artist or gallery.
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