http://jeanscott-art.com/home-pictures daily 1.0 2025-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55be3703e4b067fc8a7efb00/1598405878627-49X4YAAODFFHZQY2H3XG/Marsyas_jeanscott2020+2.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55be3703e4b067fc8a7efb00/bb1a13be-2053-40d3-bd22-0521195ddcb1/Scott_Jean_d%27rubbing_.jpg About http://jeanscott-art.com/statement daily 0.75 2020-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55be3703e4b067fc8a7efb00/1605365964059-3SXQ515E20HL2KZJRLWW/Scott_Jean-Leap.jpg Statement There’s an unnameable kind of excitement you feel when you recognize the thing you’ve been looking for - especially if you didn’t even know you were seeking it. It’s a big part of why artists create, and why audiences look: we want to experience wonder. The world can reveal itself in surprising ways: when shadows distort perspective, for example, or when positive and negative space change places. These moments are thrilling, and even scary; to me, they’re intimations, little signs and wonders, that the world we think we see is not the only one that exists. When I paint, I try to create conditions for those signs and wonders to appear. I move material around, apply some, erase some, get frustrated, wipe it all out - until something surprising appears and somehow I know it IS the thing I want to see, and I recognize it and stop. Sometimes this process is very fast, and sometimes it’s slow and involves a lot of revisiting and recreating conditions; and sometimes it goes too far and things are too obscured and I need a fresh start. To say it involves more feeling than conscious thought risks a familiar kind of ridicule, but to me the point of painting - and looking - is to connect with things we don’t have words for. When you look at my work, I hope you have the same experience of discovery that I have in the studio. I hope you can tell that my paintings and prints are often roughly and cheaply made because they’re signposts on a journey rather than monuments erected at a destination. They’re me sharing something I saw with you: drying puddles that look like two people kissing; a tortured surface whose scars read as stars; the hole in the leaf a child laughingly peeps through - haha! The world is full of magic. http://jeanscott-art.com/jeanscott-art/connect daily 0.75 2020-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55be3703e4b067fc8a7efb00/1605370627509-IL21QEQ7W32USPOEG175/Family+Wood.jpg Connect http://jeanscott-art.com/words daily 0.75 2020-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55be3703e4b067fc8a7efb00/1605384427716-FWSJE89CYLW84TE8AVBX/Scott_Jean_Leap_2019.jpg Words The world can reveal itself in surprising ways: when shadows distort perspective, for example, or when positive and negative space change places. These moments offer thrilling - even scary - intimations that the world is not always what it seems. Such signs and wonders seem full of possibility. I try to create conditions that invite those signs and wonders to appear. I move material around, apply some, erase some, get frustrated, wipe it all out - until something startling emerges, and I recognize it, or I want to look more at it, and I stop. Sometimes this process is very fast, and sometimes it’s slow and involves a lot of revisiting and recreating conditions; and sometimes it goes too far and things are too obscured and I need a fresh start. To say it involves more feeling than thought risks a kind of ridicule, but to me the point of painting - and looking - is to connect with things we don’t have words for. When you look at my work, I hope you have the same experience of discovery that I have in the studio, catching something at the side of your gaze: a fast-stroke frog-fish; a tortured surface whose scars are stars; the hole in a leaf a child peeps through, laughing - haha! Magic. http://jeanscott-art.com/terms-brine daily 0.75 2025-05-09 http://jeanscott-art.com/privacy-brine daily 0.75 2025-05-09 http://jeanscott-art.com/collect daily 0.75 2020-11-28 http://jeanscott-art.com/collect/bayz93rsbbrrml9fyo999bn4lmxout monthly 0.5 2020-11-28 http://jeanscott-art.com/collect/blue-wind monthly 0.5 2020-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55be3703e4b067fc8a7efb00/1606570653347-AMECTMB0Q3KPTL46E7DX/Blue+Wind.jpg Collect - Blue Wind http://jeanscott-art.com/collect/northern-state monthly 0.5 2020-11-28