Luxury Life & Style - (Page 40) jenny simon music in Berlin. She played piano, and her parents took her to the opera and other cultural events. As a child, she copied works by German painters Carl Spitzweg and Albrecht Durer with charcoal. Besides some high school art classes, Simon is self-taught. Though art had always been a part of her life, she left high school with no idea she could make art for a living. “I didn’t feel I had possibilities because there weren’t artistic jobs out there. My parents said you have to go to the post office and get a job there,” she recalls. Simon got a job at an airline, but it never felt right. “I would come home and take my uniform off as soon as I got in and throw it in the corner,” she says. “I was so angry. I had depressions in between. I felt like I was in a cage.” She also took other “real jobs” in real estate, sales and telecommunications. But when a friend visited her house one day and looked at her artwork, she got her first insight into her unhappiness. “He said, ‘You’re an artist. What are you doing to yourself? Look at you. You’re not made for the kind of jobs you are doing. You are hurting yourself,’” she recalls. “That was the first time that somebody pointed it out to me. It was kind of a realization. I was crying when he said that because it was like a relief.” Simon kept the real estate job, which gave her the flexibility to concentrate on her art. Then she decided to move to the United States to pursue her dream. The warmth of Simon’s art is undoubtedly a reflection of her sensitivity. She likes to donate artwork to charity fundraisers, for groups such as Habitat for Humanity and Save Darfur. And she always keeps ones and fives in her pocket for the homeless. “I believe strongly, especially with so much wealth in Southern California, people should not have to be on the street,” she says. “I always believe that what you give out comes back to you.” Simon also learned a valuable lesson from her artistic influences, Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter. “Those artists did what they felt, and they didn’t care about what other people think about it. They pushed through what they really wanted to do,” she says. “It takes a lot of courage to do that, and a strong spirit to keep doing it, when some people say, ‘That’s not good’ or ‘I would do that different.’ I got from them that everything is possible.” Learn more about the artist at jennysimon.org. • 40 Luxury Life & style March/April 2008 jennysimon.org
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