Barbados artist Simone Padmore, also known as Simone Asia, is an illustrator who was born in 1990 in Bridgetown, Barbados. From 2006-2011, Simone attended the Barbados Community College where she received her Associate’s Degree in Visual Arts and her Bachelor’s of Fine Art. Attending BCC exposed Simone to many different art forms, techniques and experimentation where she developed a stronger sensibility for drawing and a love for pen and ink. Simone illustrates by hand, using pen and ink as her prominent media. She is interested in illustrating concepts about the alter ego and developing her own hybrids or characters using line, space, and detail.