Scott Petty

Drawings & Oil Paintings

Biographical Sketch
 
Scott Petty has been painting and drawing all his life—primarily en plein air. While painting on location, Scott absorbs the setting’s sounds, smells and atmosphere, capturing on his canvas all these varied aspects as well as the emotions that the scene provokes in him.
 
Scott quite often finds beauty in the mundane.
His choice of subject matter is frequently an ordinary scene that might go unnoticed by others. An avid bike rider, Scott uses his rides as an opportunity to scout out locations for painting, returning later to capture the scene
in a drawing or an oil painting.
 
Scott’s numerous awards include Best of Show at the Cedarhurst Center for the Arts Biennial (Mount Vernon, Illinois), his most recent win.
 

Artist’s Statement

“The two groupings of recent paintings in my   Impressions exhibition reflect two of my longstanding painting interests. The first is landscapes, especially landscapes with bridges.
My second-favorite subject is people, and for this show I’ve selected unposed people gathered in common activities.
 
“In addition to my identity as an artist, I am an enthusiastic bicyclist, so I often use bicycling as a resource for my work. Some of the bridge paintings in this exhibition are of impressions from images
I snapped while riding my bicycle along the Riverfront Bicycle Trail.”

                                               —Scott Petty