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Beatnik

$499.00

Simone Scholes, Mansfield, Massachusetts

Materials: Oil on metallic gesso on cradled board

Size: 16 × 12 inches [click image for full view]

Shipping: Included in price

Beatnik celebrates mid-century counterculture through playful camouflage and rhythmic pattern. Blending into a polka-dot backdrop, she challenges perception and embraces poetic rebellion. She is a luminary of style and self-expression, where blending in becomes a form of standing out.

Simone works with color variance style, a posterization that employs a deliberate separation of hues and values, constructing form through adjacent, shape-based color fields with some blended transitions. This method creates a layered chromatic architecture: each discrete block of color functions as a micro-plane, and together these planes build volume, rhythm, and visual vibration. The result is an image that feels both graphic and dimensional—an interplay between abstraction and realism where the viewer’s eye optically blends the colors, generating depth and nuance through intentional segmentation. Viewing Simone’s work intimately is completely different than from a distance.

Simone Scholes’ textured, buttery oil paintings radiate a strength and presence that make them truly unforgettable—and essential for collectors that value portraiture that can light up a room. Her portraits of powerful women are not just visually striking; they embody resilience, grace, and unapologetic individuality that only Simone can capture in this way. Each delicious brushstroke carries weight, sculpting form and emotion with a tactile richness that pulls viewers in. Scholes captures her subjects with both reverence and fire, creating work that feels timeless yet boldly contemporary. To live with Simone’s art in your home is to invite a daily reminder of courage, beauty, and the quiet force of women who stand firmly in their own stories.

Simone’s paintings consistently draw competitive bidding, quickly becoming some of the most sought-after works in our fundraising auctions. Their emotional power and striking presence captivate viewers, creating an energy in the room that elevates every exhibition, including ART SHOP!

Simone Scholes, Mansfield, Massachusetts

Materials: Oil on metallic gesso on cradled board

Size: 16 × 12 inches [click image for full view]

Shipping: Included in price

Beatnik celebrates mid-century counterculture through playful camouflage and rhythmic pattern. Blending into a polka-dot backdrop, she challenges perception and embraces poetic rebellion. She is a luminary of style and self-expression, where blending in becomes a form of standing out.

Simone works with color variance style, a posterization that employs a deliberate separation of hues and values, constructing form through adjacent, shape-based color fields with some blended transitions. This method creates a layered chromatic architecture: each discrete block of color functions as a micro-plane, and together these planes build volume, rhythm, and visual vibration. The result is an image that feels both graphic and dimensional—an interplay between abstraction and realism where the viewer’s eye optically blends the colors, generating depth and nuance through intentional segmentation. Viewing Simone’s work intimately is completely different than from a distance.

Simone Scholes’ textured, buttery oil paintings radiate a strength and presence that make them truly unforgettable—and essential for collectors that value portraiture that can light up a room. Her portraits of powerful women are not just visually striking; they embody resilience, grace, and unapologetic individuality that only Simone can capture in this way. Each delicious brushstroke carries weight, sculpting form and emotion with a tactile richness that pulls viewers in. Scholes captures her subjects with both reverence and fire, creating work that feels timeless yet boldly contemporary. To live with Simone’s art in your home is to invite a daily reminder of courage, beauty, and the quiet force of women who stand firmly in their own stories.

Simone’s paintings consistently draw competitive bidding, quickly becoming some of the most sought-after works in our fundraising auctions. Their emotional power and striking presence captivate viewers, creating an energy in the room that elevates every exhibition, including ART SHOP!

 

SIMONE SCHOLES ART

ARTIST STATEMENT

A portrait series that explores the divine feminine through myth, light, and cultural adornment. Each figure is rendered as an archetype—rooted in specific traditions yet elevated into celestial presence. Through expressive brushwork, symbolic halos, and richly textured garments, these women become vessels of reverence, resilience, and radiant identity.

  • Mawu honors the Gbe creator goddess of Sun and Moon, one half of the divine twinship Mawu-Lisa. Her serene gaze and patterned attire evoke cosmic duality and generative power. She is the embodiment of balance-lunar softness entwined with solar strength.

  • Rhiannon channels the Celtic goddess of sovereignty and transformation. Adorned in regal textures and framed by a pale halo, she radiates mystery and endurance. Her presence suggests movement between realms, carrying myth into modern grace.

  • Beatnik celebrates mid-century counterculture through playful camouflage and rhythmic pattern. Blending into a polka-dot backdrop, she challenges perception and embraces poetic rebellion. She is a luminary of style and self-expression, where blending in becomes a form of standing out.

Together, these portraits form a constellation of feminine archetypes—mythic, cultural, and modern. They invite viewers to reflect on how light defines identity, and how adornment becomes a language of selfhood. The series honoring the quiet majesty of women who hold brightness within.

 
 

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