BIOGRAPHY:
Sculptor and printmaker
Sandy Scott feels very strongly for, and about, her subject.
She has quickly climbed to the top of her field using observation,
incorporating a sense of motion and mood and attentively
fine tuning her skills. A widely admired printmaker of sporting
scene etchings in the 1970s, Scott turned to sculpting in
the early 1980s, focusing primarily on birds. Nearly two
decades later, she has matured technically and artistically
moving adeptly between subjects wild and domestic, including
keen-eyed eagles, sinuous trout, elegant dogs, robust pigs,
powerful horses, exotic macaws and arrogant roosters.
Today Scott is recognized
as one of the country's premier animal sculptors, interweaving,
as Robin Salmon, curator of sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens,
writes, "the continuing thread of the animalier in American
art." The book, "Spirit
of the Wild Things," published on the occasion of the
Gilcrease Museum Rendezvous '98, documents Scott's career
and artistic development. Sandy's work has been collected
throughout the world by major art collections. Her unique
background has enabled her to capture the spirit of her
subjects with a heartfelt vitality and technical skill.
"With a father who
is an outdoorsman, my love of the outdoors was cultivated
at an early age," explains Sandy. "I've always loved to
fish and I've backpacked and camped in some of this country's
most beautiful places." This life-style has left lasting
impressions on Sandy, and it is this feeling of love for
nature which radiates from her work.
Although at times
she works in the field, Sandy prefers the calm of the studio
for her creative work. "But it is not feasible to stage
a herd of elk or a gaggle of geese in my studio," she says,
"so I rely on my field trips for inspiration. Much of my
field work is done with a camera, and I have thousands of
frames of 35mm film which provide a very valuable source
of reference. I strive to retain in my work the feeling
and emotion experienced while observing, sketching, and
photographing in the field."
