Stephen Scott
TWILIGHT, OROMOCTO RIVER
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TWILIGHT, FRENCH LAKE
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JESTER STUDY "The study (above) was done in preparation for a painting of a man in the guise of a jester. I have done many works using this model and he has always evoked unusual and he has always evoked unusual symbolic associations. The drawing and the larger paintings were actually done three or so years apart but my interest in the theme was enough to bring me back to it."
HEAD, MAN IN COAT
LIFE DRAWING MODEL "These drawings were done at a time when I was experimenting with expressive impulse in figurative drawing. The technique involved
WOMAN IN SLIP
THE ARTIST'S FATHER
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RECLINING NUDE
oil on canvas
36 x 40 in.
framed dimension: 44 x 48 in.
$7,600
WOMAN AND DOG
oil on board
20 x 24 in.
framed dimension: 27 x 31.5 in.
$2,800
STUDY OF A CITY
oil on canvas
26.5 x 33.5 in.
framed
$3,200
STUDY FOR NEW BRUNSWICK LANDSCAPE
oil on board
12 x 9 in.
framed dimension: 18.5 x 15 in.
$1,200
PONDS AND LILIES SKETCH
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SOLSTICE, EVENING SKY
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LITTLE FALLS
oil on board
4.5 x 6 in.
framed dimension: 9 x 10.5 in.
$500
TIDAL ROCKS, TIN CAN BEACH
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THE SLIDE |
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ARTIST STATEMENT: I am known mainly as a painter of landscape and figures. My work has developed out of regional sensibility and experience and has been autobiographical in nature, and in this sense I am a romantic painter. My postgraduate training in art therapy has caused me to be aware of the dynamic underpinnings in visual expression, and travel has broadened my outlook and choice of material. In painting I see that representation allows an articulate vehicle for the expression of subjective experience through content which draws on memory and present experience. Art functions in its interpretive role as a direct object of contemplation for the viewer. Its significance and structure is provided through a selection of key experiential points of reference. The formal aspects of my work are underlined by its current of traditionalism. As my work seeks constant change I have invested in experiences which lend themselves to a broadening of thematic material. My goals are to invest my subjects with a heightened sense of emotion and insight, to find freedom to use painting in a manner which allows aesthetic discovery and reveals significance beyond the corresponding relationships of imagery. My painting has constantly evolved in manner and technical approach in order to maintain its flexibility. Stephen Scott, 2009
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STUDY FOR SOLSTICE
oil on canvas
16 x 12 in.
framed
$1,600
SOLSTICE
oil on canvas
72 x 44 in.
framed
$9,500
GERMAN SHEPHERD
MULLACKSTRASSE
TUNNEL
Born in Saint John, his formative years spent in Fredericton, Stephen Scott began art studies at the Ontario College of Art for one year before returning to New Brunswick to complete his training at Mount Allison University. He graduated with a fine arts degree in 1978. Subsequently, he obtained a Master of Arts in Arts Therapy from Concordia University, Montréal, Québec in 1998. His early paintings in egg tempera asserted his exceptional proficiency as a painter and a sensibility that cast the New Brunswick landscape under a dark, brooding mantle. This haunting tension between natural and inhabited environment has continued in his work, albeit he now prefers the oil medium in painting. With equal skill and ease he has reflected a more luminous side to his vision in the transparent medium of watercolors. Likewise, figure drawings, (quick studies often scaled to life-size), demonstrated more than assurance between eye and hand, but also an ability to expose personality in the sitters' likeness. Such solid traditional artistic grounding and technical virtuosity is not practiced for its own sake, however. It simply provides Scott with a way and means of probing below the surfaces of his subjects opening perceptions that respond to emotional vulnerabilities and a dialogue of ideas on a symbolic, spiritual level. This interior resonance characterizes his major themes, including landscapes, still life, and figures. The figure within the landscape, for example, must be considered not simply as a visage, but in its harmonious relationship with the surroundings articulated in gesture, form, and colors. The subdued dark range of his preferred palette sustains a sense of mystery, even melancholy. It also suggests the subtle influences Stephen Scott has absorbed from the great masters, whose work he has studied during several scholarship sponsored study and work trips to Europe, notably Antwerp (Belgium), Gotland (Sweden) and Berlin (Germany). He is currently maintaining connections in Berlin, where he lived in 2004 and 2005. Scott paints full time and resides in a rural setting near Fredericton.
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