Meet the Artist Molly Chopin

Molly Chopin is a visual artist living in Raleigh, North Carolina, with particular passions for acrylic painting, body painting, and mural work. A Pennsylvania native who graduated from Kutztown University in 2007 with a bachelors degree in Art Education, she worked as a secondary art teacher in the school system for seven years before exiting due to frustrations over lack of support for the arts, an over-emphasis on standardized testing, and the overall structure of the school day. Not willing to completely leave her love for teaching in the past, she has been working at Pinot’s Palette in Brier Creek since it opened in June 2014 and adores passing on what she’s learned and loved about art to both adults and children that visit the studio.

In addition to instructing classes at Pinot’s Palette she also teaches private art lessons from her studio in downtown Raleigh, and otherwise balances her time between designing commissioned works for clients in the realm of drawings, paintings, murals, logo designs, and costumes; putting smiles on the faces of patrons who hire her as a face painter for special events; and pursuing projects pulled from her own sketchbook/ imagination to make work that is personally meaningful.

In 2014 she participated in and won a speed-painting competition (Ultimate Painting) held in Greensboro, NC, and also discovered a love for the art form of body painting which led to her participation in two major competitions hosted annually by Living Art America—- Living Art Greensboro, where as a first-time participant she placed 7th overall, and the North American Bodypaint Championships where she assisted artist Tiffany Beckler to a fourth place finish in the professional artists category. Since her participation in these events she has teamed up with numerous models and photographers to pursue more conceptual pieces in the realm of body art and believes in the power of the art form for its ability to emphasize the miraculous aspects of the symmetry and form of the human body, in addition to bringing a subject’s personality/ soul/ inner world to an exterior surface.

To see more of Molly’s work you can visit her artist’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/mochopin