Artist Scott Boyle
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. When a plein air painting is successful completed, it will sometimes become the inspiration for a larger studio work. Creating paintings indoors then allows me the time to further develop the ideas which were initially born outdoors. Working in a studio gives me a controlled environment and allows me to have repeated sessions with a painting to add layers of transparent glazes, scumbles and impastos that create depth in the work.
Some of my inspiration comes from landscape painters of the 19th and 20th centuries. I 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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