Standing Figures (Colin Scott) - Original Watercolour

This is an original watercolour painting by the Penzance artist Colin Scott. Colin was a highly respected artist and teacher of art. Painting titled Standing Figures. Framed size approx 37cm by 37cm. His paintings could be described as dreamscapes, always with human figures, often androgynous, undergoing surreal liquid transformations and pursuing mysterious games and activities adrift in a kind of purgatorial exile. Faceless, limbs dismembered, reduced to watery elements, here Bacon meets Dali and Ernst in the shadow of De Chirico. With Cornwall as his base he travelled widely in Europe, giving workshops in Germany, Sweden, France, Majorca and Ireland. While nearer to home he lectured at Falmouth College of Art, but it was as part-time tutor at the Penzance School of Art, teaching life drawing and watercolour, that he became a hugely respected figure for his patience with younger talent. Many of his pupils have gone on to be professional artists. He also maintained an international following. Over the decade prior to his death, he worked almost obsessively with a monk-like daily discipline in a large and basic studio. With no electricity or water and regardless of the weather, he would often rise with the sun to put in a full day's work. In the evenings he usually relaxed at the Penzance Arts Club where he acted as the hub of most of its social activity. He was totally unpretentious about the arts and enjoyed the company of all kinds of characters, young and old alike.