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Bill Scott

Bill Scott (Born 1956) is active/lives in Pennsylvania.  Bill Scott is known for Abstract botanical painting.

Bill Scott's paintings lie within the cultural continuum of the Philadelphia colorist tradition, passed on to him and his contemporaries through mentors such as painters Quita Brodhead and Jane Piper, who were themselves students of Arthur B. Carles, the pioneer of Philadelphia modernism.  Also a student of the recognized abstractionist Joan Mitchell, Scott fuses his local artistic heritage together with the raw energy embedded in her abstractions.  It is this unique combination of influences—including abstract compositions, saturated color, calligraphic line, large scale, and pure vitality—that drive Scott's paintings and instill them with expressive spirit.

The underlying geometry of brilliantly colored patchworks in Scott's paintings evokes the sensations and textures of collage.  Complementing these blocks of color are often overlying, dark lines that serve to weave the pictorial arrangements together.  Of this new compositional element   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12242 characters.]  Artist bio

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