SUSAN G. SCOTT

Susan G. Scott, born in Montreal, is a dual citizen of the US and Canada. She spends the winter months in her Montreal studio and teaching at Concordia, and the summers researching and painting in Vermont. Educated in the US and Canada, Scott has a long exhibition career with one person shows in Canada, the US, and Europe.

Scott’s work of the past 10 years has shifted away from the figure into landscape paintings based on plein air studies. Inventing a way to combine her concentration on Western art history with the philosophical methodology of Chinese scroll landscapes has been the substance of Scott’s most recent works. These paintings present a dialogue on the process of painting itself, from the experience and documentation of the subject, to the refining process of the final paintings. By eliminating both an obvious horizon line and by working large format, Scott’s work becomes immersive - enveloping the viewer. Bringing these works to completion in her studio is a far more arduous journey, a process of elimination, collage and reconsideration, of finding balance, rhythm and a sense of space and dappled light that is sometimes blinding. This work is an attempt to describe the place where life is ever changing - enervating, alive - yet seems also to remain an unchanging and reassuring point of stability.

A well-known Montreal artist and educator, anthologist Robert Bernier wrote:

Scott shows an extraordinary capacity for reinventing herself while preserving the rigorous nature that marks her entire body of work.*

*Bernier, Robert. La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960. Montreal QC: Editions de L’Homme. 2002. 25. Print.

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