Marsh Scott

Creating on the Southern California coast in Dana Point, Marsh Scott expresses her artistic vision in paint, metal, photography and stone.

Early sculptural work in cast paper evolved into large multiple piece installations. Ink paintings reduced the line and gesture to their minimum. Paintings included handmade paper for texture. Always experimenting with a variety of mediums; metal, especially stainless steel, became the choice for large public commissions and installations throughout the country. Drawing in CAD and having plates laser or water jet cut allows the surface to at once be sculpture and drawing. Shadows become an additional, changing layer. A series of encaustic paintings and some sculptures became more and more minimal and neutral with some focusing on sweeping gestural marks and others, repetitive texture. Stone became a new medium to explore with installations of multiple abstract forms carved with line.

Marsh Scott grew up in several cities in the east, and received a BS in Art Education from Penn State before she moved to the west coast and ultimately Laguna Beach. She received her MA in Art from CSULB, and took architecture classes at UCI. After ten years of teaching high school and community college art a...

M.A., Art, The California State University, Long Beach, 1976. With Distinction.
B.S., Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 1974. With Distinction.
Architecture courses at the University of California, Irvine, 1980-82.
Lifetime Teaching Credentials for Secondary and Community College Art, California.

“Artist of the Year” Art Star Awards, LBAA, Laguna Beach, Ca. 2010
3D Goes 2D, City of Laguna Beach, Ca. 2012
“Glass, Paint, Color” Golden West College Fine Art Gallery, Hunting Beach, Ca. 2010
“Americas 2009: Paperworks”, juried show, Northwest Art Center, Minot, ND, Merit Award
“225°F: Encaustic Encounters“, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, 2009
“Women’s Works 2009”, Northwest Area Arts Center, Woodstock, IL
“National Art Encounter 2009”, juried show, The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, Fl. 2009
Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Sales and Rental Gallery 2003
Millard Sheets Gallery, a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum, “The Art of Living”, Pomona, Ca. 2003
Studio Gallery, “Textures”, Irvine, Ca. 2001
Solo Exhibition, Plaza Gallery, Huntington Beach, Ca. 1997
Purchase Award, Permanent Collection, World Trade Center, New Orleans, La. 1992

PUBLICATIONS
“Brushstrokes and Steel”, Jennifer Pappas, Laguna Beach Magazine, February 2014
Authentic Visual Voices, Contemporary Paper & Encaustic, Catherine Nash, 2013
Laguna Beach Community Services Brochure, covers: "Colors of the Canyon" Fall 2013
"Art with a Purpose" Roberta Carasso, Coast Magazine O...