Born 1970.Currently residing in Los Angeles, Scott paints daily out on the balcony of his second-story condominium where he loves to listen to music and delve into abstraction. He takes inspiration from his immediate surroundings, real or imagined, and paints into the wee hours of the night. "That's when the energy comes." Scott began painting full time after a brush with cancer in 1999. He was admitted into the Pasadena Society of Artists in 2004. Artist Statement: When I watch my reflexes, count heartbeats, suck in air, I can’t help but think how many times these bodily functions have taken place without me. For the most part, these are not my directives. I know Someone or Something is watching after me, keeping vigil.Every canvas has an agenda--a life of its own separate from its maker, separate from thought or logic or reason--and to plot its course is only to interfere. To plan is to destroy. Let it paint. Trust the mess. All marks are good.The self-taught artist has the greatest chance to be unique. Without knowledge of 'rules' to hinder the hand or an instructor's style to imitate, what results is pure, entirely his own.Currently I'm loving the paintings of Cecily Brown, Raimonds Staprans and Paul Balmer. My all-time favorites have to be Max Beckmann and Milton Avery.