Scott Breton is a fine artist who lives and works in Brisbane, Australia.
Scott currently has work displayed at Salisbury Studios Queenland Incorporated.
Scott is a founding partner of Atelier Art Classes, an independent art school that provides artistic training based on the traditional atelier method that begins with studying representational drawing, painting and sculpture.
Update: Weekly uploaded life drawings:
I have begun uploading some of the life drawings I do each week to my blog. With some of them I am including some description of what aspects I have been particularly working on with these drawings.
Recent Paintings:
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"Point of Contact" 92 x 62 cm Oil on linen
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"Movement and Rest" 1m x 76cm Oil on Linen
"Touching the Surface" 1m x 2m acrylic on canvas 2011
"Decision Choreography" 1m x 1.5m Acrylic on linen 2012
"Wharburton Groove 3" Acrylic on Canvas 2011
"Improvisation in Warm Colours" 90cm x 1.2m Acrylic on Canvas 2011
"King's College Rowing Team" 1.5 x 1m Oil on Linen 2012
Scott Breton: Artist's Statement
I am interested in making visual art that is primarily visual in its expression of sentiments and ideas. That is, art that creates a mood, an intrigue, an implied sense of the relationship between human beings and existence, with further explanation being interesting but not essential. I consider it an important distinction that aesthetic philosophy be a means to creating authentic and powerful artwork, rather than artwork being an illustration in support of that aesthetic philosophy.
Drawing from the life model has been central to my artistic practice for the past twelve years, and the human figure has been a central interest to me for as long as I can remember. The figure provides an arena for purely visual considerations of form, two dimensional design, and light. But it is also highly emotive, because as human beings, we read it so well empathetically through body language (including facial expression). Our familiarity with what constitutes the range of anatomical normality, our sensitivity to emotional state expressed through body language, and the sheer complexity of the human body as form, make this one of the most challenging subjects visual artists face. I cannot imagine a more inspiring subject though, with such endless expressive possibilities. In the words of Rodin,
"Nature gives me my model, life, and thought; the nostrils breathe, the heart beats, the lungs inhale, the being thinks and feels, has pains and joys, ambitions, passions and emotions. These I must express."