Simone Wilson

Simone Wilson is a self-taught artist born in Atlanta, GA. An obsessive scavenger, she began producing functional and aesthetic assemblages out of junk in 1991. Simone moved to Athens, Ga. in 1992 where she met artist Beecher Hickey. Together they began building furniture using recycled wood and other objects and embellishing them with trompe-l�oeil paintings which ended up being commissioned in Atlanta and the southeast for the next 8 years. Bill passed away in 2002 and continues to inspire her to this day. Today Simone creates two and three dimensional works, she paints, builds, scavenges, gardens and lives in Asheville, NC with her family and best friend Louise, her basset Hound.