The earth is art. The construction and deconstruction of human creation is art. The movement of a snake through the grass or a crocodile through the water is art. The pattern of welts from an attack of mosquitoes is art. The sky is art. Wrinkles are art.
Art is the intersection of line and movement, the pointillism of sand, the abstract of a sunset, the real and unreal of object against it’s reflection or shadow, the omen of intersecting branches, the pattern of time across skin.
I am most heavily influenced by the works of my mother, the celebrated international artist Betty Scott. She brought me along when I was a child as she searched for the right street corner to set up her easel along the Shenendoah River and in the barrios of Caracas, Venezuela and the docks of Bridgetown, Barbados. I have posted some of her works on a Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Betty-Scott-987345011329820/
Like Mom, my paintings and drawings attempt to capture more than the objects depicted. It is the feeling of the place like the hot boldness of Montpellier La Nuit or the stark life of Femmes de Tunis. I also bring forward the feeling of ‘other’, that sense of life beyond our own, the goddess of The Giant’s Bride and the ogre of Possession.
Photography for me is a way to capture not just the beautiful moment, but the perplexing and curious. There is a section for Omens… Is that just a tree, or are there shapes within it that say something else? As a bard, I walk with the understanding that what I see at any given moment is something no one else will see in exactly the same light or angle of view.
Illustration is based on written work.
All work is copyright Debra L Scott. Some pieces are available for sale or exhibit.
(some work is signed DLScott or Debra Ward or DLWard. The Ward is from an earlier part of my life)
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