Justin's FrameDesigns

PHOENIX SIMMS has undergone

years of investigation into the

painterly possibilities of oil on

linen and decades of practice

with the fluid physicality of wet

on wet dyes in silk, which she

now brings to uncharted

expanses of black primed canvas

in high key acrylics.

 

Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Phoenix earned her Bachelors of Architecture from University of Oregon and practiced as a licensed interior architect in San Francisco for ten years.

 

Upon moving to Aspen Colorado, she discovered silk and became a multi award-winning silk painter. For the next 15 years she made her living producing hand-painted fashion accessories for juried art shows, galleries and department stores such as Nordstrom and Henry Bendel.

 

Relocating to Santa Fe New Mexico in 2002 Phoenix devoted the next few years to the study of oil painting. She now weds those formal studio techniques with the mastery of color and spontaneity acquired from silk painting and a thorough command of design from her decade in architecture for her current, intuitive explorations in acrylics on canvas.