Isabel Forbes

Isabel Forbes

Raised in Spartanburg, SC, Isabel draws on a successful career in graphic design and illustration, coupled with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida’s Ringling College of Art & Design. Her love for art is always evolving, as she experiments with new techniques. Isabel paints full-time in her “working studio & gallery” in Spartanburg, SC.

Exhibitions

  • 2024 Counterfeit 2, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC

  • 2021 Counterfeit, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
  • 2020 Hometown, Caldwell Banker Caine, Spartanburg, SC
  • 2019 A Celebration of American Women Artist, Providence Gallery, Charlotte, NC
  • 2017 Capturing Light, Cabarrus Arts Council, Concord, NC
  • 2015 Night In Havana, The Art Lounge, Spartanburg, SC
  • 2012 USCA-Etherredge Center Art Gallery, Aiken, SC
Awards
  • 2021 Painting Commission for Mary Black Foundation Anniversary
  • 2016 SC State Park Residency
  • 2013 People’s Choice – Spartanburg Artists Guild, Spartanburg, SC
  • 2005 First Place – Fraser Fox Award & Honorable Mention Award – Artist & Craftsman Supply Award, COPA Paint Out, Charleston, SC
  • 2003 Honorable Mention, Federal People’s Choice Art Exhibit, Charleston, SC
  • 2002 Third Place, Charleston Artist Guild Signature Show, Charleston, SC
  • 2001 First Place, First Federal People’s Choice Art Exhibit, Charleston, SC
  • Second Place, Folly Beach Art Festival, Folly Beach SC
  • Best of Show, Coastal Carolina Fair, Ladson, SC
  • 2000 Third Place, Cultural Arts Program, N. Charleston, SC
  • 1999 Purchase Award, First Federal People’s Choice Art Exhibit, Charleston, SC
  • 1998 Honorable Mention, Magnolia Gardens Art Competition
  • 1994 Traveling Exhibition, National Watercolor Society, Brea, CA
  • 1994 Best of Show, Women’s Caucus for Art, Sarasota, FL
  • 1993 Best of Show, Anna Maria Festival of Fine Art, Anna Maria Island, FL
Press
  • CONTEXT Ringling College of Art & Design, “Painting the town”, Spring 2024
  • The Nature of Things, Isabel Forbes Exhibit Review • Neely review Oct 2016 Forbes show by Scott Neely
  • Best of America Oil Artists  • Kennedy Publishing
  • Artist’s Among Us, 100 Faces in Spartanburg  • Hub City Press
  • Spartanburg Herald Journal – January 4, 2009 • Painter Isabel Forbes proves you can go home again
  • Wofford College News Room – August 27, 2010 • In Plain Sight
  • Eastside Living, N2Publishing November 2017
  • Elysian Magazine, Palladian Publications Spring 2016

Classes / Workshops

Isabel Forbes Art Studio & Gallery is a working studio and also holds and hosts workshops, classes, and meetings. New classes are forming; contact me for more information.

CONTACT ME

Contact Isabel

iforbesart@gmail.com

Email Isabel