BOWING OUT
I was on Hollyoaks but I quit fame to go back to uni and now I’ve got a totally different career
FORMER Hollyoaks actress Scarlett Bowman is now living a very different life 11 years after quitting fame.
The former soap star, 37, swapped drama for art, something she's been passionate about her entire life.
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Scarlett played manipulative bully Maddie Morrison in Hollyoaks for three years before she was killed off in a minibus accident in 2012.
At school Scarlett achieved a qualification in Fine Art, Textiles, Photography and History of Art at school.
She then studied Classics at Newcastle University before doing a Foundation in Art and Design at City & Guilds.
Most recently Scarlett earned a Masters at Chelsea College of Art.
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The mum-of-two is a contemporary artist who specialises in colourful fabric collages.
In an interview with curator Becca Pelly-Fry, she said of her creative process: "I take forever to make these collages in my mind and physically on the table."
And Scarlett explained to why she makes the type of art she does.
"Incorporating a wide range of materials has always been part of my process," she said. "I can trace this back to the very beginning really, I didn't have much spare cash to be buying expensive art-related materials and so I made work with stuff I found all over the place - from literally around the house to skips, to discarded builders materials on the streets etc.
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"As a kid I used to collage old magazine scraps and I returned to this hobby when I left University, just in my spare time. This 'collage' based approach developed to collaging found items and cheap materials purchased from local hardware and pound shops and as a result, this has naturally developed into a distinctly utilitarian-based aesthetic."
Scarlett married husband Rob Colicci in a lavish ceremony in Portofino, Italy, in 2016.
After saying ‘I do,’ their friends and family gathered to watch the newlyweds as they sped off in a pale yellow Fiat 500 Jolly adorned with flowers to begin their new life as man and wife.
The couple have a son, Rafael, and daughter, Juno Rose, together.
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