Paul Scott

Paul was born in Tasmania, a place that has produced some of Australia’s finest landscape painters. He has been painting for over 30 years, honing his technical skills, to produce astonishing paintings that capture light, atmosphere and the aesthetic beauty of majestic scenery. Paul has spent many years in and around the Margaret River region painting the beauty of its oceans, wetlands and landscapes. He has exhibited throughout Australia and his work is held in collections in Australia and overseas.

Artist Statement:

My use of 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 I gather 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 me 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.

"Scientific and psychological realities" are linked through the irrefutable actions of colour and shape. The temperature of colours, the contrast of opposites, the jagged and aggressive and the contoured and harmonious shape are used by artists with remorseless vigour in the exploration of thought and existence. I have been painting for over 30 years and have work in Australia and overseas collections.

My technique is traditional oil painting on canvas, emphasizing a larger format, as I feel this to be advantageous in creating a sense of monumentality and depth, qualities I deem essential in any successful "realist" interpretation of majestic scenery and its inevitable psychological parallel.

I love the coast! I live on a farm in Yallingup, with friends in peace and harmony, gardening, helping with farm chores and playing music in between work and travel.