FORMER Hollyoaks actress Scarlett Bowman has swapped the glitz of soap land for the world of fine art – and looks totally different now.
The TV star was famous for playing Hollyoaks bully Maddie Morrison on the small screen.
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She left the soap in 2012 after her character was savagely killed off in a car crash.
During her time on Hollyoaks, Scarlett praised her character Maddie for being a good example for teenagers, especially through her storyline about Maddie losing her virginity and setting a three-month sex ban on boyfriend Callum Kane, until she felt ready to be intimate with him.
Scarlett was nominated for the Sexiest Female at the British Soap Awards in 2012, but lost out to Michelle Keegan.
And Scarlett now has a very different life 11 years after quitting the spotlight.
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.
She’s also got an arm full of qualifications in Fine Art, Textiles, and Photography, and went on to study Classics at Newcastle.
Scarlett later bagged a Masters from Chelsea College of Art.
These days, she’s a mum-of-two and a contemporary artist who specialises in collages and runs her business Projects on Walls, placing art in commercial spaces.
In an interview with King and McGaw 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 Floorr Magazine 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.
“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.”
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