Paul Scott

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Paul Scott was born in Tasmania in 1956 and went on to study Art at the now Tasmanian School of Art in Launceston in 1980.

Paul’s technique is traditional Oil painting on canvas. Emphasizing a larger format, he believes this to be advantageous in creating a sense of monumentality and depth, qualities he deems essential in any successful "realist" interpretation of majestic scenery and its inevitable psychological parallel.
His use of the Ocean, Sky and Landscape imagery is part of a wider investigation into the effects we associate with place and time, weather and light. The information he gather’s refers to the scientific and mathematical nature of reality. When choosing a composition it is factors like scale and perspective and the activities of nature, like how the waves break and clouds float and a successful portrayal of these issues that determine whether it will be possible for Paul to resolve the "illusion" and create the concept of scenery, in paint.

Dramatic light and weather effects are of great interest to us all. The contemplation of place and time and of light and atmospheric conditions has significant psychological as well as sentimental influence. Processing of all relevant information not only forms part of our immediate reality but also initiates memory and meaning in one of our primary intellectual functions, the constant analysis of the aesthetic of "beauty". Beauty is an extremely complex and compelling human ideal, one that an artist can never avoid.

Paul has been painting for over 30 years and is held in Private Collections throughout Australia and around the world.