Barbara Scott
Much of my life has been unsettled. As a child moving every year or two and then, when eighteen, hitchhiking to California, living in Taos, New Mexico taking pack mule teams down into the Rio Grande for trail maintenance, off-shore fishing in Gloucester, Massachusetts and farming in North Dakota just south of the Canadian border. There was much darkness during those years, with the earth being my refuge and peace. When words became inadequate for expression, I began to draw and have continued to do so along with working in soft pastels.
Over time, loving the earth and the feel, weight, colors and textures of its organic materials, I also began to explore sculpture, where stone, wood and bone have life and can speak.
So I am self-teaching with no formal training in fine art or craft. But I am driven and committed to search and explore through art how to express in material form the knowledge that we are both earthborn and starbound. I see both our fragility and our heartbreaking beauty, nobility and strength of spirit as we share the physical forms of the earth yet reach beyond these material limits towards something larger than ourselves.
I have worked for many years in both drawing and sculpture and been in many juried and invitational shows, yet feel I’m still just beginning to find my voice and style and use of materials to say what I believe. My hope as a person and an artist is to have the gift of time and ability to express through my work our search to understand our place in this wondrous and mysterious universe.
Barbara Scott
"Earthborn Starbound" - Cedarwood and Bone - 7’7” x 34”x25” (hxwxd)
"Silent Sentine" - Cedarwood and Alabaster - 29”x9”x14” (hxwxd)
"Spirit Ascending" - Cedarwood and Copper - 36”x25”x12” (hxwxd)
