Pamela Scott says she often stops and stares at things, and what catches her attention could well be the subject of her next painting. “I’m a realist. I paint the world I see,“ she says, “I love untidy corners, jumbles of tools, a bunch of old boots . . . just things for daily life”.
Scott’s passion is working with light. She uses water-based media for their light-reflecting qualities, often mixing gouache with egg tempera, acrylics or watercolour. This way, she finds she can also play with the texture and thickness of the paint. “Sometimes I’ll start painting and the light somewhere else catches my eye, so I paint that, too.”
Paris gave Scott a wealth of subjects to paint. One favourite is the studio of her well-known painter friend, Joseph Plaskett, which she has captured from many angles. Most of her interpretations of this familiar setting include a cat, an empty wine bottle or two and the evening’s garbage. “I guess I’m a busy sort of painter, “Scott remarks. “I like to find all the details, some interesting light – maybe a reflection in a mirror or a window – and latch it all together.
Pamela Scott has exhibited at a number of galleries, among them the New Westminster Public Library Art Gallery, the Art Circle and the B.C. Artists’ Show. “Artists in the Square,” in British Columbia. She has had work accepted several times in the annual show mounted by the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour in Toronto. Her work is also in many corporate and private collections in British Columbia, England, France and the U.S.