DiscoverFriday Feature ArtistSimone Elizabeth Saunders creates soft textures with strong messages
Simone Elizabeth Saunders creates soft textures with strong messages

Simone Elizabeth Saunders creates soft textures with strong messages

Update: 2025-11-28
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Through the vivid language of punch needle tapestry, Simone Elizabeth Saunders reclaims and reimagines Western art histories. A Canadian artist of Jamaican and African descent, Simone weaves narratives of Black womanhood, liberation and ancestral connection into lush, large-scale works rooted in Art Nouveau, the Renaissance and her own lived experience. In this conversation, she shares the spiritual, symbolic, and technical dimensions of her extraordinary practice.

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Simone Elizabeth Saunders creates soft textures with strong messages

Simone Elizabeth Saunders creates soft textures with strong messages

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