About Me
As a child, I saw magic in light—how it rippled across water, filtered through trees, or dissolved into clouds. Then, wonder was effortless.
In today’s world of instability, mass-production, and desensitization, that feeling of wonder is hard to reach. Yet, personal and cultural grief challenged me to seek moments that feed my awe, whether through divine presence, chance, or fleeting beauty.
I paint from personal photographs seeking moments that transcend their immediate context—moments of domestic intimacy, fleeting connections, and people interacting with nature. Through light and water, I explore transformation, impermanence, and the numinous. My practice draws from Genre scenes, Romantic spirituality, and Baroque drama, elevating the mundane by imbuing it with emotional and spiritual weight. The physicality of painting becomes a dance between holding and releasing, balancing representation with abstraction. Swirling marks of joy and melancholy evoke time, memory, and the unseen, offering a contemplative alternative to today’s proliferation of images. In a world of passive consumption, my work resists disposability and offers a space for contemplation—an invitation to see, to feel, to believe in something beyond the surface.
Phoebe-Agnès, an oil painter raised in the Tennessee mountains by a poet and a French professor, merges historical techniques with contemporary imagery. Trained in an atelier-style apprenticeship before earning her BFA in Art and Philosophy, she draws from childhood memories of rippling creek waters and medieval French châteaus. Beyond painting, she has trained in a pre-professional ballet company, lived in a monastery, and enjoys baking.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2024- Present Studio Art MFA Candidate at the University of Georgia
2022 University of the South. BA, Art and Philosophy
2021 New York Academy of Art, Summer Undergraduate Residency Program
2018 Girls Preparatory School
Solo Exhibitions
2022 CARLOS GALLERY. The University of the South. In the Light of Loss
2021 STIRLING’S GALLERY. The University of the South. Star and Flower
2020 FRENCH HOUSE GALLERY. The University of the South. Tout ce que J’ai Vue 2018 STIRLING’S GALLERY. The University of the South. Selected Works
Group Exhibitions
2024 LYNDON HOUSE. Juried Show
2023 EXUM GALLERY. Holding Shadows. Joint Show
2022 UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY. Anamnesis
2022 MUDHOUSE RESIDENCY. Final Show
2021 NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART. Residency Show 2019 AVA GALLERY. Juried Members Show
2018 TOWNSEND ATELIER. Elevate
20US CAPITOL BUILDING. Congressional Art Competition
Recognitions, Awards, and Achievements
2024 Boynes Artist Monthly Award
2023 Curator's Choice Award, Gallery Omata
2022 Phi Beta Kappa Member
2022 Hugh Harris Caldwell Jr. Award For Excellence in Philosophy
2022 John McCrady Memorial Award For Excellence in Art
2021 Omicron Delta Kappa Member
2021 Full Merit scholarship to NYAA Undergraduate program
2019 Best in Show Runner-up. AVA Gallery Juried Members Show
2018 Arts Fellowship. University of the South
2018 Fletcher-Bright Award for the Arts. Girls Preparatory School
2016 Full Merit Scholarship to study under Mia Bergeron. Townsend Atelier
Residencies and Workshops Attended
2022 Florence Academy of Art, Figure Painting Workshop- Florence, Italy
2022 Mudhouse Residency June Session- Crete, Greece
2021 NYAA. Summer Undergraduate Residency Program- New York, NY
2020 Zoey Frank: Multiple Figures Composition Course- Zoom
2019 Mia Bergeron: Figures and Florals- Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga TN
2017 Timur Akhriev: Painting the Still Life Townsend Atelier- Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga TN
2017-2019 Mia Bergeron: Oil painting 1, Oil Painting 2- Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga TN
Workshops Taught
2023 Beginning Acrylic Painting Eight Week Workshop, Studio 550 Manchester NH
2023 Intro to Drawing Eight Week Workshop Studio 550 Manchester NH
Publications
2024 BOYNES ARTIST AWARD. Exclusive Interview
2023 GALLERY OMATA. Exclusive Interview
2022 THE CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING. Promotional Video Christmas Tree Lighting At Sewanee
2021 MOUNTAIN GOAT JOURNAL. Cover artist. 2021 SEWANEE SPECTRE. Eight Portraits
2018 SEWANEE PURPLE. Artist of the Week
2018 CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS. GPS graduate’s oil painting hangs in the U.S. capitol