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About Scott

 

b. 1963, Landscape artist Scott Boyle recreates a sense of place and emotion, with shapes, color, texture, and balance.  He strives to capture the harmony and essence of beauty in the world around us representing familiar vistas in North Carolina and beyond.  Scott says he finds North Carolina one of the most exciting and inspiring states to paint . . . similar to California in its uniqueness. 

 

At an early age Scott was recognized to have an unusual ability to draw and his parents seized the opportunity by providing private art lessons at the early age of seven.  He was fortunate to have been influenced by a rich heritage of traditional Indiana painters from Beech Grove.  By the time he was sixteen, he had won over four-dozen awards and sold sixty-five oil paintings.

During this time Scott had one eye on the sky with a great interest in aviation. Later he attended Indiana State University, graduating in 1984 to become an airline pilot. Today he still flies and often takes his paints on layovers to study the outdoors in other locations across the country or seeking out Art Museums in the larger cities he visits.

 He spends much of his time painting smaller paintings from life on location to accurately recreate that emotional response that a camera cannot capture. He uses these small pictures and his memory as a guide to create larger paintings in his studio.

 Scott makes his home in rural Gaston County, near Bessemer City, North Carolina, with his wife, Esther, and their five children.

Scott Boyle Artist Statement

 

“With my landscape paintings I strive to create with paint the temperamental effects of natural light on the world around us. This is an enormous challenge as most of my paintings are produced plein air or (outdoors).  Being there in person in the face of nature has a way of keeping me honest and growing as a representational artist.  The more time I spend outdoors painting, the more successful I can become back in the studio to produce larger works.

 

I am most fascinated by painters of the 19th and 20th and spend considerable time reading as well as visiting art museums throughout the United States.  Being inspired by works that successfully capture the fleeting effects of light, some of my favorite artists are: Sir George Clausen, Isaac Levitan, Winslow Homer, George Inness, Frits Thaulow, Claude Monet, Henry O Tanner, Edgar Payne, Clyde Aspevig, and T. Allen Lawson.

 

Life as a painter is an endless challenge to explore the world visually; my passion is for the one who created it and that my work might bring glory to God.”

 

 

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Honors and Awards

 

2008 Finalist,   Annual Landscape Contest Feb-Mar Issue 59 International Artist Magazine, AZ
2007 2nd Place,   25th Annual Artoberfest  Mooresville Artists Guild, NC
2007 Shirl Smithson Memorial Scholarship OPA, IL
2007 2nd Place,  1st Annual TRAC Paint Out Toe River Arts Council, NC
2006 Honorable Mention,  “A Natural View” Juried Exhibit Gaston County Art Guild, NC
2005 1st Place,  Old Trucks and Art in the Park Cherryville, NC
2005 Jury’s Top Fifty,  Salon International Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, TX
2004 1st Place,  Observer Juried Exhibit Guild of Charlotte Artists, NC

 

Selected Exhibitions

 

2007 15th Annual Southeast Invatational Miniature Show Germanton Art Gallery, NC
2007 "Color Harmony and Balance"   Two Man Show The Frame Gallery, NC
2007 "A Visual Harvest"   Juried Exhibit Gaston County Art Guild, NC
2007 25th Annual Artoberfest   Juried Exhibit Mooresville Artists Guild, NC
2007 "Plein Air Perspectives"   Group Show The Art Cellar, NC
2007 Salon International   Juried Exhibit Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, TX
2007 Miniature Fine Art Show   Group Show Artistic Designs Gallery, IN
2007 Annual Plein Air Show   Group Show Germanton Art Gallery
2007 "A Natural View"   Juried Exhibit Gaston County Art Guild
2006 14th Annual Southeast Invitational Miniature Show Germanton art Gallery, NC
2006 Queens University   Juried Exhibit Guild of Charlotte Artists, NC
2006 25th Anniversary   Group Show The Frame Gallery, NC
2006 "A Visual Harvest"   Juried Show Gaston County Art Guild, NC
2006 OPA Eastern Regional   Juried Exhibit Brazier Fine Art, VA
2006 Annual "Thing With Wings"   Group Show Germanton Art Gallery, NC
2006 82nd Annual Hoosier Salon   Juried Exhibit Indiana State Museum, IN
2006 27th Annual Indiana Heritage Arts   Juried Exhibit Brown County Art Museum, IN
2006 Salon International   Juried Exhibit Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, TX
2006 Annual Plein Air Show   Group Show Germanton Art Gallery, NC
2006 "A Natural View"   Juried Exhibit Gaston County Art Guild, NC
2005 13th Annual Southeast Invitational Miniature Show Germanton Art Gallery, NC
2005 "Reflections"   Solo Show The Frame Gallery, NC
2005 81st Annual Hoosier Salon   Juried Exhibit Indiana State Museum, IN
2005 Salon International   Juried Exhibit Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, TX
2005 Annual Plein Air Show   Group Show Germanton Art Gallery, NC

Publications

2008 International Artist Magazine   Landscape Painting published in Feb-Mar Issue as Top Finalist Winner

 

Artist Workshops Attended

 

2007 Marc Hanson Taylor's Falls, MN
2005 T. Allen Lawson Rockport, ME
2004 Scott Christensen Jackson Hole, WY

 

Affiliations

 

OPA Oil Painters of America (Associate Member) National, USA
IHA Indiana Heritage Arts Regional, Indiana
Hoosier Salon Regional, Indiana
GCAG Gaston County Art Guild Local, Gaston County, North Carolina

 

Current Galley Representation

 

Artist Designs Gallery Brownsburg, IN
Germanton Art Gallery Germanton, NC
The Art Cellar Banner Elk, NC
The Frame Gallery Gastonia, NC

 

Hoosier Heritage

Hoosier- Definition: Native of Indiana

Scott painting American Impressionist T. C. Steel's First Studio in Brown County, Indiana

 

 

 

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