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Coming Home. Shirley Bavonese, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

By Gina Malone<\/p>\n

Nature acts as an essential muse to many an artist, and Shirley Bavonese is no exception. \u201cI seek her beauty and paint her with reverence,\u201d Bavonese says. \u201cThere is no limitation to my inspiration. She is my guide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Growing up in Michigan, Bavonese was much younger than her sisters and so spent a lot of time alone, many of those hours in creative pursuits. \u201cI began drawing as early as second grade,\u201d she says. \u201cI was especially interested in portraits.\u201d By high school, she had fully embraced portraiture, choosing as subjects rock stars of the time. \u201cI loved the Allman Brothers and Leon Russell,\u201d she says. \u201cMy boyfriend at the time was able to get Greg Allman to sign the portrait I made.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lipstick Kisses. Shirley Bavonese, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

Her desire to create was innate, she adds, without any one person encouraging her to be an artist. When her father suggested commercial art as a career, she shied away from the idea. \u201cI knew intuitively going in that direction would spoil my creative juice,\u201d she says. \u201cI could not see myself creating on demand, drawing things that had no meaning to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

A college job as a window merchandise designer did excite her, however. \u201cI worked for a women\u2019s retail store, Winkleman\u2019s, which advanced me to their junior division,\u201d she says. \u201cThere, I won awards in the field and traveled to New York for fashion week. The job gave me full license to create anything I wanted in the windows. My favorite was a zoo installation where all the animals were placed outside the cages and the people visiting were caged\u2014a total, fun role reversal.\u201d<\/p>\n

After college, she worked for a time as an elementary school teacher, becoming certified in Special Education. \u201cIn my teaching jobs, I used art to enhance most subjects,\u201d she says. \u201cThe children were able to have fun and learn at the same time.\u201d From there, she decided to earn a Master\u2019s in Social Work and trained to become a psychotherapist. With the demands on her time in setting up a private practice, she put aside her art. She and her husband, a psychologist, opened a clinic, The Relationship Institute. \u201cWe divided our skills,\u201d she says, \u201cand I became responsible for the design of the offices. I made sure to use bright, soothing colors. Beige was not an option. We had iris purple and sage green walls.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mysterious. Shirley Bavonese, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

She found that raising their three children afforded ample opportunity to return to the creativity that had fed her soul at a young age. She produced plays for children and designed the sets. \u201cThis was all inspired by Earth Day,\u201d she says. \u201cI felt very compelled to inspire all to take part in protecting our lovely planet.\u201d This experience led to her coordinating a yearly event and parade with the Sierra Club called the Green Cruise in which up to 500 people would participate.<\/p>\n

With her children off to college, Bavonese began painting again, turning her living room into a studio. She also displayed her paintings at the group practice she and her husband had established. \u201cClients expressed that the landscapes, abstracts and flowers calmed them and helped them with their treatment,\u201d she says. \u201cTherapists would share with me often how the clients were positively soothed by my paintings. I took art classes and chose to be coached by artists that I especially admire and resonate with. I did not want to pursue more education.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she and her husband retired, they came to Asheville for the mountains and the supportive arts community. It was during the early days of COVID-19 when they fully moved into their home in West Asheville, and Bavonese set up a studio. \u201cI continued to paint in the studio during COVID,\u201d she says. \u201cI was especially interested in how many of the wild animals were being restored as people secluded.<\/p>\n

Animals and the open spaces were on the mend in a relatively short period of time. What a wonderful example of what it really means to live mutually, respectfully, with nature, and what the result looks like. I painted an abstract titled Metamorphosis based on that concept.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bavonese feels blessed to be at a time in her life when she can be in the studio and paint daily. \u201cThe art space is bathed in natural light, which makes a huge difference,\u201d she says. \u201cI am surrounded by incredible, talented artists here at Curve where we all support each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Float. Shirley Bavonese, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

Among others who have mentored and inspired her is fellow artist Peter Roux, who finds himself drawn to Bavonese\u2019s work in a number of ways. \u201cHer palette leans towards a real celebration of color,\u201d he says, \u201cembracing intensity, high-keyed values, warmth and unexpected relationships. Her paint application retains the energy, daring and gesture of her arms and eyes. There is a symphony at play in Shirley\u2019s canvases\u2014some notes harmonious, other relationships oddly dissonant. Yet, in the end, they each converge into a visual emotional story that carries me as a viewer. I go places I have not yet quite been.\u201d<\/p>\n

The energy that she sees and experiences in the natural world\u2014with flowers blooming in gardens all around her studio\u2014is what Bavonese strives for in her work. \u201cThere is no static landscape or flower,\u201d she says. \u201cEven my abstracts embrace the movement and explosion of color. I always paint standing up and I move all the time. I dance and I paint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shirley Bavonese\u2019s studio is located at Curve Studios, 5 River Arts Place, in the River Arts District. Hours are Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and by appointment. Learn more at paintings-by-shirley.com<\/a> and on Instagram @shirleybavonese. Through mid-month, her work is also being shown at anandahairstudio, 22 Broadway Street, Asheville.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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