Isabel Forbes
Raised in Spartanburg, SC, Isabel draws from 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 of art is always evolving, experimenting with new techniques.
Isabel paints full time in her “working studio & gallery” in 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
- 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
- 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
