Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Sholo Beverly. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Sholo, thanks for joining us today. Can you share an important lesson you learned in a prior job that’s helped you in your career afterwards?

My lesson believe it or not came from the beautiful little souls I cared for everyday in my business of running an in home daycare for 30 plus years! I use the exclamation mark, because it is a gift I will always cherish and miss being such a big force in my life. The lesson learned was “If I am not having fun in life with work, creating, and my spiritual practice that it’s time to stop. Seeing the world through the little folks eyes was such a gift. i created my life to always being in a creative space of of inspiration for my art. From taking walks in nature, to building sand mounds at the beach. I was always being inspired and felt so grateful for the space to daydream and sometimes even act out with dance with my little guys. I was also given the gift to create with little children on so many levels. I learned making mistakes are fun. I learned not having an outcome is OK! I learned that the process of play frees your imagination. This for me has been a true gift to my soul

Sholo, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I have always been an artist since I was a child. I have practiced yoga since I was very young at the hand of my beloved father. My mother was an artist in many ways with interior design and a bit of clothing design. We had a tailor when I was growing up. We would take trips to the fabric store to pick up patterns and fabric. I must admit that I did not like going there at first, then I discovered all the wonderful patterns on the fabric. I would get little samples and take them home to hoard in a box. As I got older I began painting on fabric and making clothes. My high school years were fun painting on blue jean coats for me and friends. I knew from there on that I loved textiles and mixed media along with fashion, Fashion is still a big part of my art life. I feel as a muralist that I am able to create large textile images on walls now. I love fashion illustration, so there is always a bit of that in my work with figure drawing which is my other passion. The most that I am proud of with my art is the manifestations that are always coming to true with my art and projects. As a child I always wondered how do folks get to paint on the side of buildings. I thought oh well I might not be good enough. I put it on the back burner hoping one day it would happen, and it did! I was asked to do kind of a large space for a beginner and it came out great and it was so much fun. I have not stopped and that was almost five years ago. Just by word of mouth and patience I have scored some great mural gigs. My latest project that I have always wanted was to paint a mural for a yoga studio and bring beauty to the spiritual world.

How did you build your audience on social media?

Ha! this is a funny question to me for many reasons. I think I chose this question because I am always amazed by so many artists’ living and dying for social media. I see galleries judging artists by their social media which makes me sad, because what does that really have to do with the artist? Are they selling because they have thousands of followers? Maybe but maybe not. Any gigs I get are through word of mouth or art shows and I am happy with that. I do not focus on social media as much as I should maybe, I really just like posting beautiful pictures and loving words. I have noticed when I make a reel on Instagram that they get lots of hits and comments. I think that is because I never really take myself that seriously as an artist and again it’s all about fun. I am 55 years old and on a mission to make art for my legacy for my children. I will always paint walls, clothing, you name it and when it sells I will be happy, I guess my advice to new creatives starting out on social media would be “Be your authentic self” we are not beautiful painting LOL and that is half the beauty. Also I would warn that social media takes away creative time. Use it as a treat after ten hours of painting so not to be distracted. One last thing, social media is good for seeing wonderful artists all over the world and that is nice in moderation and applying for weird shows around the world for fun

We’d love to hear your thoughts on NFTs. (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

I really do not understand NFT’s. When I did research this world, I was confused with why owning a digital image. The whole world of digital art boggles me. I do dabble with some digital work with procreate and some collage apps just for fun, Mostly to get my juices flowing or laying in bed and can’t sleep. That does not happen often I must say

Contact Info:

• Website: www.artistsholo.com www.Youtopiawalls.com (in the making)
• Instagram: artistsholo@instagram.com
• Facebook: Sholobeverly@facebook.com
• Youtube: artistsholo@youtube
• Other: I love my blog lunatic2022@blogspot.com Artistsholo@pintrest.com