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The allure of France contains pleasures and contradictions. This essay contains my reasons for taking on this adventure.

Long-stay visa validation- more hoops, and final resolution.

A Year in France; beginnings

Applying for a long stay (1 year) visa to France explained. Necessary if you want to stay in France (or indeed anywhere in Europe) for more than 90 days.

An interview at Gallery 78 concerning the use of the figure as a subject in painting. I talk about my background as a painter and the rôle of my wife Sophie in this current exhibition.

The work presented in the exhibition “The (Un)certainty of Seeing; the Paintings of Stephen Scott”brings to a head a number of years of living and following my self-defining direction as an artist. As I’ve elsewhere described I am a figurative painter whose work is largely autobiographical and which has evolved from origins influenced by east ...

I’d Really Like to Talk to You about Stephen Scott and his latest Figure Painting... Review of my latest work by Robert Barriault — (05/20) Robert Barriault / Montreal Reflections (making photographs, thinking about art)

Article by Virgil Hammock on my work in relation to beauty.

A recent publication of my drawings which were made as studies and field notes.

This high definition digitally scanned archival giclée is from a run of 40 signed images.

Stephen Scott in conversation with Virgil Hammock at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

A brief video clip shot in Stephen Scott’s Fredericton, New Brunswick, studio, in December, 2018.

Some thoughts on a visit to San Miguel de Allende.

An essay on the romantic idea of Patronage, based on personal experience.

I was included in an exhibition of nine New Brunswick artists at the University of Maine Museum of Art.

The expressive line in drawing.

Oil sketching in northern New Brunswick.

My response to having converted an outbuilding with skylight to a summer studio.

Thoughts on working in the studio as opposed to pleine air, and the use of field notes.

My experience painting a posthumous portrait of the celebrated poet Alden Nowlan.

It's not necessary to find the perfect romantic motif for landscape painting. In fact I find it more satisfying to extract truth from environmental studies.

The notebook for a visual artist is the same as a harmonica to a blues player. It should always be in your possession.

Ideas go through many stages before they reach some form of conclusion.

This is an autobiographical poem set in childhood. It was written while studying for my degree in Art Therapy.

oil on linen, 12 × 16″ oil on linen, 12 × 16″

There is an unnamed brook behind where I live. Before the cold weather comes I will attempt a few quick paintings to mark the boundary between two worlds.

Two small works done in Inkerman, New Brunswick. It's near the coast in a wooded area close to the fishing town of Shippegan.

Image page from a two-man show at Roberts Gallery in Toronto.

An exhibition of works done in the Sackville area, shown in the Thunder and Lightning, as part of the Bordertown Festival in Sackville, New Brunswick.

One of the many outcomes from the commissioned portrait of the poet Alden Nowlan.

Late Summer, oil on canvas, 11 × 14″, 2014

This is a great article if I do say so. The East magazine: Stephen Scott, The Definitive Neopostromantic.

A show of two very diverse realist painters who share a surprising amount of aesthetic judgment.

The subtext for the show evolved from a discussion on the role of selective perception in representational painting, and by extension how aesthetic judgments give pictorial language to non-verbal expression.

This exhibition of alumni artists from the Fine Art Department at Mount Allison University celebrated the opening of the new Fine Arts building.

More reflections upon returning to the studio of some landscape work done during the summer spent in Sackville, New Brunswick.

A look at some landscape sketches and drawings made in Sackville, New Brunswick over the summer.

This was the second summer I had spent in Sackville visiting an area I had grown very fond of while earning my B.FA. I had spent the summer doing landscape paintings.

Cyrenus (Sunny) Robichaud is my wife's uncle. A bachelor, he has lived in the small village of Inkerman on the Acadian peninsula all of his life. He has reached the point of having to leave his house, and it is left as it was when he was living there.

Site of a proposed future Guild Academy of Arts. This project is an idea generated by Virgil, Meredith and myself which would develop in an effort to provide instruction for painting technique and support of a somewhat classical aesthetic philosophy.

As is my habit I am away from the sturm, dust and drang of the metropolis for the summer. I have returned to Sackville for a reprise of last summers adventures.

A trip to Portland with stops at Bodoin College and the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine. A main feature was a retrospective of Richard Estes painting.

An exhibition which included a portrait of Virgil Hammock and a number of my more important paintings. It's origin lay in a project of Virgil's and mine which centred on a 20 part text of the conversation between us while working on a Virgil's portrait, and which was available as an ebook.

An interesting day followed in which we spoke to the docents on the nature of the works in the exhibition at the Beaverbrook. The range of topics covered the birth of creative inspiration to technical issues.

A show curated by Virgil Hammock of my work at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. It is built around a portrait project we undertook over the past summer and involved the development of an ebook of our conversations on art during the sittings.

Some insights into my radiation treatments for cancer post-surgery.

Spending time with an artist who had been a big inspiration early on in setting my own course in the arts.

My summer projects finished in September. My next voyage then began, an all-consuming experience beginning with surgery for cancer.

In September I packed my studio for an extended leave. I had been diagnosed with a stage 4 cancer and was on my way to Halifax.

Thoughts on correspondence with a colleague about what being an artist is about.