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Bill Scott
Born Bryn Mawr, PA 1956
I Work Like a Gardner, 2019
Watercolor and acrylic on paper
12 Ã- 16 inches

Value: $4,900

An expert colorist, Scott draws from nature and his own imagination, making paintings that are at once abstract and representational. Although his canvases overflow with lush renderings of flora and fauna, he has little interest in copying directly from nature. Instead, each painting is an offering of a perfect window view, an idealized garden, or a feeling evoked by the final days of a season. While color remains at the heart of Scott's art making, his recent paintings announce a return to a darker ground. While many of the new paintings contain his signature layering of blocks of color, they assert a mature soulfulness in their complexity and uplifting tones.

Scott has exhibited widely over the past three decades at museums that include Hollins University; National Academy Museum; State Museum of Pennsylvania; Swarthmore College; and the University of Delaware. Major public collections holding Scott's work include the Asheville Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Delaware Art Museum; the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Woodmere Art Museum. In 2006, he was awarded a Distinguished Alumni award from the Pennsylvania Academy.