Scott Blaser

“Somewhere along the way the pearl would be handed to me.”- Jack Kerouac, On the Road


The magic only took about 60 years. I saw the magic last week in one of Scott’s landscape paintings at the Springville Museum of Art in Utah. The painting was leaning against the wall before being hung in the gallery. Another work obscured all but two inches of the painting. The subject was indistinguishable from the narrow sample of the work I could see, but the magic of the painting was as clear in the sample as it was in the entirety of the painting. The luster, the brushwork, and the depth of color were rich and complex yet subtle as a pearl. I could see the destination of a long road in that thin strip of a landscape. Somewhere along the way, Scott was given the pearl.

Scott has been on the road to painting that landscape for sixty years. I have known that journey first-hand for the fifty years that Scott has been my friend. Like Jack Kerouac, Scott has worked his way through the landscape with side jobs. He didn’t pick cotton, and he wasn’t a night watchman like Jack. But he did become a CPA and an attorney to support the journey.

Years ago, I saw Scott across a studio in a life drawing class at the University of Utah. I had lost track o...

2010- MA City and Guilds of London Art School, Birmingham University, UK


1982- LLM Taxation, McGeorge School of Law, USA


1981- Juris Doctorate, McGeorge School of Law, USA


1978- BA Brigham Young University, USA

Solo

2013 Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, London, UK

2012 Patrick Moore Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

2012 Artist in Residence at The Lookout,Caroline Wiseman Gallery, Aldeburgh, UK

2011 The London Original Print Fair, London, UK

2011 London / Berlin Anschlussel, Exhibit co-sponsored by Frushsorge, Contemporary Drawings, Berlin and C4RD, London, UK


Group

2014 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

2012 International Exhibition by The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, London, UK

2010 MA Degree show, City & Guilds Art School, London campus

2007 Kneeland Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA

2007 Diehl Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA