Life is a Wonderful Thing - Pauline Scott Solo art Exhibition

Venue: Laine & Co Art Gallery
Starts: Thursday, September 13, 2012
Ends: Sunday, September 30, 2012
Address: 122 Victoria Road Scarborough North Yorkshire YO11 1SL
Location: Yorkshire

Life is a Wonderful Thing Pauline Scott’s current work is based on what, to her, are wonderful experiences that make up the rich pattern of life. The representations are frequently semi-abstract but all are based on the reality of some object or event that she has encountered in life. They are an expression of her feelings of wonder in life, mainly in paint but also in other media. What makes life joyful? Different things bring pleasure at different times. Sometimes it is excitement of movement as portrayed in ‘The Dance’. Sometimes it is the energy of water pounding over rocks. At other times it may be a sense of calm and serenity. Or it may perhaps be a sense of wonder in things as varied as the vast universe or as small as the structure of a single cell. The series of small paintings entitled ‘Life is a Wonderful Thing’ is intended to demonstrate a sense of wonder and is based on many different things Scott has encountered in life. Scott states that …“Although my work is based on my feelings and experiences, I want the viewers to be fired by their imagination and to see and feel whatever they find within it, hoping that it also gives them a sense of intrigue and of pleasure”

Janilaine Mainprize

My art is an outcome of learning from and translating the things that I see, feel and find both physically and emotionally often discovered when out and about.Â I combine and recycle mundane and found objects, especially cloth and ephemera alongside varied art disciplines to gain greater dimension and depth.

I am interested in how the fragility of my environment resonates with my personal experiences. I am constantly surprised by the links I find between these materials and how they evoke emotions and memories for the viewer or myself.

Combining mixed media alongside found objects enables me to explore these connections and create a personal response. The colours I choose are predominantly neutral and subtle emphasizing and highlighting shape, texture and marks, the outcome frequently resulting in assemblage, sculptural and relief pieces. The challenge of bringing together different elements is often a journey on its own.

My awareness of and relationship with my surroundings is very important to both my work and to me and through these connections I seek to create and share new or renewed interpretations. I involve its previous life and history and try to recall distant memories by re-visiting forgotten times then re-connect and re-create to share in the present. I feel that by putting something into a new context I will lead the viewer to hopefully relate with it, re-evaluate and perhaps appreciate it.

The ever-changing sense of time, memory and the shifting of values fascinates me.....as a result of these small yet unique discoveries I unearth a little more of myself.