Hello.. Richard Scott Studio Works.
Introduction: Each Studio Work is a piece of time from Richard s Studio. Richard always has one canvas laying around for doodling, experimenting and sticking travel and day to day studio items onto the canvas. Be it an Expired credit card or a stub from British airways flight to New York or apiece of his daughter s art he purchased from her. These sort-after pieces have reach number 34 in 15 years. Page 2 of 15
Step 1: Identifying an opportunity: My assistants at the time, use to clean their brushes in this basin in my studio. I had to clean a black brush one day and painted a cat on the wall. The wall became more and more filled with everyday studio doodles from cleaning brushes. One day back in 2007, I decided to put a blank white canvas on the wall and see what happens. (Early 2007) Page 3 of 15
Step 2: Soon the canvas started to take shape from the dirty brushes. Doddles starteted appearing and found items were stuck onto the canvas. Th epiece became a source of inspiration. A place to go to where you can do what you wanted to do and be totally free. (Early 2007) Page 4 of 15
Step 3: Adding more and more layers and found object s and doodles and colours and more canvases. Page 5 of 15
Step 4: The first 4 Studio Works come to life: I was just having fun back then. A German client walked into my studio one day and bought all 4 pieces. I decided that I had to do more. I never ever thought I would go on to paint and sell 34 Studio Works. Page 6 of 15
The first 4 works from 2007: Richard Scott Studio Works Page 7 of 15
Step 5: Painting various Studio Works over the years. Page 8 of 15
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Exciting new dimensions in Richard Scott s latest collection Charl Bezuidenhout Cape Town artist Richard Scott needs little introduction. Given his growing popularity on the South African and international art market over the past five to ten years, he is fast becoming a household name in the very best sense. Colourful and figurative, his work mostly portrays female semi-nudes in a variety of playful stances, apart from his other firm favorites such as trees and animals. These images are applied in thick, monochrome colour on large surfaces, couched in prominent black outlines. Appealing to viewers and collectors alike, the works exude a quality which is rather difficult to pinpoint: they contain elements of the cartoon, while also incorporating features of naïve art. They probably also fascinate because of their daring simplicity and directness, illustrating Scott s indifference to serious academic sanctioning, and unknowingly even provoking and problematising formal classification. Scott goes his own, honest way, doing what he finds stimulating discovering the bonus of an appreciative public. Where he will also be exhibiting in Chicago and Italy later this year, he feels that his idiosynchratic style relates to the present image and media culture, thereby making a meaningful contribution to the art discourse of the day. His latest work is bound to surprise both his steady followers and other art lovers with an interesting shift in his genre making inroads into his established style. The readily identifiable figures still pop up, but this time superimposed on a remarkably rich and full canvas multidimensional and resembling a collage. This style has evolved spontaneously from Scott s fascination with the marks left on surfaces where he cleans his brushes. Using it as a point of departure, he recreates the background on canvas, adding found objects such as old paint brushes, colour charts, inscriptions and miscellaneous trinkets from the consumer culture. In true post-modernistic fashion, the artist makes his presence known in his work. Scott reiterates, however, that the end product is not premeditated or intellectual. Having made his mark on the local and international art scene, he now experiences a greater sense of freedom and confidence that allows him to explore alternative ways of engaging with his medium. As he revels in the fun of making art for a living, he uses whatever is streaming from his subconscious and whatever objects make their way to his studio. Scott sees this particular body of work as a transitional stage, showing that he is not yet ready or willing to leave the figure studies or other solitary and/or multiple images behind. Here we have a self-trained artist with a mission, whose paintings never fail to stop viewers in their tracks. Whether his work is interpreted as anti-art, or art venturing into a new direction, it Page 10 of 15
bears the stamp of a gifted individualist who takes little heed of what the critics might have to say. Visitors from Belgium, Germany, Italy and further afield are proud to include Richard Scott in their collections, which explains the keen following via the internet. It seems that for Scott, the stars are predicting a splendid ride to the top. Page 11 of 15
Name: My Johannesburg Series: Studio City (My Johannesburg) Medium: Hand Embellished Print of Original Studio Painting with Gold Leaf Cape Town and Posca Pen City skyline Size: 112 x 61cm Edition: n/a Paper: Hahnemeule 308g Photo Rag Print: Giclee Colour: Multi Year: 2017 Code: G0033 Page 12 of 15
Name: My Johannesburg Series: Studio City (Johannesburg) Medium: Hand Embellished Print of Original Studio Painting with Posca Pen Size: 112 x 61cm Edition: 7 with 3 Artists Proofs Paper: Hahnemeule 308g Photo Rag Print: Giclee Colour: Multi Year: 2017 Code: G0032 Page 13 of 15
Name: My Cape Town Series: Studio City (Cape Town) Medium: Hand Embellished Print of Original Studio Painting with Gold Leaf Cape Town and Posca Pen City skyline Size: 111,7 X 61cm Edition: n/a Paper: Hahnemeule 308g Photo Rag Print: Giclee Colour: Multi Year: 2017 Code: G0033 Page 14 of 15
Name: My Cape Town Series: Studio City (Cape Town) Medium: Hand Embellished Print of Original Studio Painting with Posca Pen Size: 104,5 X 61cm Edition: 7 with 3 Artists Proofs Paper: Hahnemeule 308g Photo Rag Print: Giclee Colour: Multi Year: 2017 Code: G0034 Page 15 of 15