Collection: Scott, Louise

Canadian painter Louise Scott was born in New York in 1936 (died 2007). She studied at the School of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Salzburg School of Art in Austria. She taught at Sir George Williams University (Concordia University in Montreal).

The colour and brightness of the artist's paintings is omnipresent in Louise Scott's canvases: "I love colour and light and I try to produce images that are beautiful. There is no deeper meaning to any of this."

A painting inspired by a mystical character

Louise Scott has great technical mastery, an attention to research and detail. She mainly uses pastel on paper, oil paint and occasionally watercolour. She has also produced screen prints and etchings. Her enigmatic, often medieval characters are dressed in sumptuous, colourful costumes in magical settings juxtaposing the East with the West.

A Quebec painter, Louise Scott's paintings are part of many public collections (such as the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Quebec City, the MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, etc.) and private collections (such as CIL, La Laurentienne, Trust Montréal, etc.) in Canada, the United States and around the world.