Simone Dole in Profile
Simone’s contribution to the Continental Spring exhibition follows on the heels of her last group exhibition at Oak Hill where she and two other fellow students from TAFE, explored the theme "Life is Never Still".   "I was excited to be invited to contribute to the Spring exhibition because it is very much my current theme.   I am constantly trying to find ways  of escaping the darkness and the cold and I don't just mean in the physical sense.
There seems to be so much icy negativity and fear around us that there doesn't seem to be enough time to capture and appreciate all the beauty and the positives that arrive around the corner.    Out of the darkness, the sadness, the chaos and despair I have tried to capture and dramatize those tiny, tender moments when beauty shines through.  Thank God, Winter turns into Spring. Blossom blooms to be fertilized and the cycle continues. "
Simone has only recently returned to study art at Frankston TAFE.  Having left a career in the film industry to create a family Simone came back to study art as a result of her children.  "Whilst learning how to develop my children’s creativity I discovered my own."
 

Les Poires         $750
Simone's entry into the
2007 Continental Hotel Art Prize Les Poires  
  785x1005mm woodcut relief print

Simone Dole at the Opening Night