Artist Statement

Spending her early years living in Colorado where majestic mountains, clear bubbling streams, brilliant white snow and golden aspen abide in abundance, Sandy Scott spent countless days going on 4-Wheeling trips to the high country with her parents.  Reaching places few people ever get to see, her desire to capture their beauty led her to begin her adventure into the art world.  In her early adult life she began painting scenes of her beloved Colorado in oil and watercolor.  In the early 80’s Sandy moved to North Carolina where she added the beautiful scenes of the Smokey Mountains and the lovely Crystal Coast to her works.

 Finding a need for something more artistically challenging, she discovered inks and added them to her mediums of choice.   This new medium brought about stirring works rendered in permanent ink and watercolor, which had an impressionist technique.  She entered these paintings in a juried competition, winning second place in the show.   Judges Linda Dougherty, Curator of Contemporary Art at North Carolina Museum of Art Raleigh,  and Linda Fitzsimons  head of the art department at Meredith College, also in Raleigh, made the following statements in the Sanford Herald issue 1/24/07.

“The combination of ink and watercolor on paper is interesting.  The artist exhibits unusual technical skills by using materials in an unexpected way.”

 Linda Dougherty; 

“If I had to classify this piece, I would say it is representational, with abstract elements.  The texture along with use of color and negative space is striking.”

Linda Fitzsimons  

The vibrant colors and the spontaneity of ink continued to interest Sandy and she began a wonderful adventure into the world of their playfulness.  Adding artistic interpretative ink lines to her work, makes the paintings vibrate with tone and texture.  The final composition and techniques she applies reveal a painting of infinite discovery.