Ask the Captain about original paintings and prints for sale! Scott has been a visual art teacher at Beaufort High School for the last 20 years. He is a life-long painter and poet.
I am interested in change and movement as themes in myself and my art. When I lived in the city, my paintings were more conceptual in nature. I used to scoff at landscape paintings. After living in the Lowcountry for the last 22 years, I woke up one morning and discovered I was a landscape painter.
When observing our environment on the coast, I look for compositions that challenge me. I like vanishing points that move and shift beyond the typical perspective. Atmospheric perspective plays a large role in my paintings driven by the light on the water. Texture helps me accentuate the themes of change and movement. Salt and the tides are constant agents of erosion and decay down here.
On another level, my beliefs drive me to develop mindfulness for the depth contained in each passing moment. I strive to embody this depth in my painting through precision and clarity. I usually render these compositions with oil paint on masonite using synthetic brushes. This allows me to achieve the clarity I am seeking.
The opportunity to paint in a studio becomes a meditation and reinforces my practice. I attempt to move beyond narrative with representation. Just because it looks like something is happening does not mean there is.
Recently I have become interested in reflections. Specifically, I have become interested in reflections of ourselves in the human-made and the natural environment. I am curious how our tools say something about who we are. These tools can take the most simple to the most complex form. Then how do these tools impact our natural environment? What are the creatures we share this world with telling us? I am looking to address these questions metaphorically. I also have a focus on mark-making and how the blended surface can conceal abstract marks through the layering process.
