Fields of Wonder

This new collection was created as an exhibition to be launched as part of Holt's Arts Festival 2023. 

BELOW: Inspiration - the wild poppy meadow discovered at Walsingham

BELOW: Inspiration - the wild meadow discovered at Fulmodeston

BELOW: Inspiration - the wild meadow discovered at Swanton Novers

BELOW: Inspiration - the wild meadow discovered at Fulmodeston

BELOW: Inspiration - the meadow discovered at Fakenham

Focus

Scott's aim is to create a painting that is almost a joyful meditation on a piece of land. For this she researches in the field, making preparatory studies, wordscapes and taking photographs.  A low perspective emerges from the submersion, creating purposefully limited sight lines and a narrow focus. This concentration enhances the caress of the plants and their sway in the breeze.

Morning
by Charles Tennyson

It is the fairest sight in Nature’s realms,
To see on summer morning, dewy-sweet,
That very type of freshness, the green wheat,
Surging thro’ shadows of the hedgerow elms;
How the eye revels in the many shapes
And colours which the risen day restores!
How the wind blows the poppy’s scarlet capes
About his urn ! and how the lark upsoars!
Not like the timid corn- craik scudding fast
From his own voice, he with him takes his song
Heavenward, then, striking sideways, shoots along,
Happy as sailor boy that, from the mast,
Runs out upon the yard -arm , till at last
He sinks into his nest, those clover tufts among.

BELOW: Inspiration - the wild meadow discovered at Walsingham