Scott Bevan - How Now

Original painting 12 inches by 12 inches

C SCOTT BEVAN -- AN OVERVIEW

My love of drawing was refined at Art Center College of Design, where I graduated in industrial design in 1979, and expanded throughout my career as an environmental branding and graphic designer. In the past few years I have been smitten with landscape painting in the traditional medium of oils. Though not classical-trained as a painter, I have studied with David Cheifetz, Terry Muira, David Koch, Randall Sexton, and Scott Christensen, to name a few. Much like my approach to conceptual sketching in a gestural fashion, my goal in painting is to engage the viewer in the completion of the scene before them in their own sensatory way. Built upon my experience as a designer in the corporate world, the words of John F. Carlson --”Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts”-- speaks acutely to my own approach to landscape painting.

William Butler Yeats said, “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” I feel like that is the path I am on as every new vista brings new challenges to interpret that which arouses the painter inside me!

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time" -- Thomas Merton