Simons Davenport

Simons was born and raised in Charleston, SC, where her relatives have called home for nearly ten generations. As of September 2024, Simons resides in Chattanooga, TN with her husband and two small children. While Simons excelled in standard curriculum art classes from an early age and advanced placement classes in high school, she is otherwise largely self-taught.

After graduating from Wofford College in 2008 with a BA in Business Economics, Simons moved to New York in pursuit of change and challenge. For the next decade, she built a career in finance and worked for industry leading multi-billion dollar investment firms including Apollo Global Management and Crescent Capital Group. Inevitably, Simons longed for Charleston and eventually made her way back to the Lowcountry in 2017.  As she began to dabble back into painting in her spare time, she realized how passionate she was for creating art and decided to pursue a career as an artist whole-heartedly.