Exhibition Dates: January 4th - January 26th, 2025
Reception: Saturday, January 11th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Field Notes
New Work by Frank David Malcolm Scott
This exhibit consists of several areas of my painting endeavors. Mainly abstract in nature I look at my art as a meditative respite from the hustle and stress of our daily lives. The paintings serve as an entry to a world with a different language.
My abstract paintings and scrolls aim for a coherent balance between color, form, solid and void and the mist of artistic creation going on inside my head.
Watercolor is my main medium though pencil, ink, acrylic, photos, etc. come into play as needed to express what I’m after.
Skills learned in an architectural career given up long ago underlie the works as well.
Part of this show is devoted to my scrolls. I started developing this form of presentation while
getting my MFA at MCAD. I think of them as visual stories of a certain place, idea or an experience I’ve had. Some of these scrolls are new while others have been exhibited before but I keep modifying and adding to them. I feel if one of my artworks is in my studio/home and hasn’t sold it’s fair game for adjustment.
Another part of the exhibition are my smaller abstract paintings. In these works I’m interested in the interplay between a spontaneous wash and the solidity of lines and circular forms. I usually start out with the circles and circle templates. This is a very loose exercise, usually without a predetermined sketch or idea. The watercolor wash is similar although I often have a color or color mix in mind, this also helps give me other colors to start with in the background and circular shapes. From that point the painting becomes a reactive experience. The color of the wash and what it has covered ‘suggests’ a color for a circle or part of one, and on and on it goes to each color applied until there’s a point where I feel the painting is finished. This can take a few days, it can also take months.
Much of what I describe above also applies to my scrolls and other works as well. For me the key is to strike a balance with beauty, between colors, between forms and lines…and with the scrolls to tell visual stories about places and ideas that I can’t seem to let go of.
David Malcolm Scott
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