About Paul
As President of an advertising agency over many decades, I have worked with clients on numerous websites. The “bio” seems to be the part clients dread. When I launched my own website, I refreshed my research on how to market art. Scores of art marketers can’t be wrong. People want to know the artist. With all due humility, thank you for your interest. I am passionate about life-long learning and improvement. My art is part of that process. In sharing my art with you, I am sharing the experience of a father and husband who has lost and found love, the challenges and triumphs and insights that make a life. My personal motto is, “Be More.” Through art, I hope that you, too, are inspired to see more in the world around you and become more of your own potential in making this world better.
Artist Bio
Born in Chicago in 1952, Paul Vance Scoonover was encouraged to become an artist early in his childhood. By the age of 10, he was receiving “commissions” of a quarter from classmates to make drawings for them. After returning home from the Navy, he received his BFA in 1978, graduating with highest honors with a major in printmaking and a minor in art history.
“I learned to draw at a very early age, fourth grade actually. By fifth grade, I discovered that the drawings were coming from a very personal place. I would set transfixed on an object, and my mind would interpret the image with a sense of feeling that transcended my age. One of the joys of getting older is having the time and freedom to explore art more fully without commercial restraints.”
He has worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, and advertising executive for more than 35 years. In 1983, he founded Asen Advertising and Marketing in Knoxville, Tennessee. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Advertising Federation of Knoxville, Tennessee.
After having completed 2,000-plus illustrations for clients, Paul Scoonover has renewed his focus on fine art. Over the years, his personal works have ranged from highly detailed stippled pen and inks with an Escher feel, to expressive free-flowing, colored pencil designs, to bold, large-scale acrylics combined with textural mixed media.
Paul is the CEO of Asen Marketing & Advertising. To find out more about Asen, visit asenmarketing.com.
Paul’s Process
“I use gesture drawings and simple, expressive paintings to find the spiritual epiphany of the object or idea. My desire is not to render the object itself, but to discover what evolves internally, moving the image into a public forum and discovering its hidden meaning.”
Paul’s most recent sculptural series engages the viewer in a world of balanced layers of hand-cut objects mounted on textural backdrops. A lover of found objects, many daily items may be recycled in his art.
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Paul Scoonover is an artist who’s works range from highly detailed stippled pen and inks with an Escher feel, to expressive free-flowing, colored pencil designs, to bold, large-scale acrylics combined with textural mixed media.