Scott Paterson

I was born in Long Beach, CA, in 1951. The art bug bit me big in late high school when I discovered an activity that gave back as much as I gave. I went on to study life drawing with the great John Bowman at American River College in Sacramento. Although I'd spend much of the next 35 years veering into nonobjective painting, it was Bowman's training that brought me back, eventually, to the human form.

Studies with John Bowman at American River College, Sacramento, CA; with Ellyn Zimmerman and Robert Bechtle at San Francisco Stae University: with Dan Rice in Connecticut.

Invitee in a two-person show at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven CT, in 2008; one-person show at the Yale Lawn Club, in New Haven, CT, 2013; one-person show at the Keyes Gallery, Branford, CT, in 2015; participant in many shows and competitions along the Connecticut Shoreline, including the Friday Night Painters, Guilford Art Center and the Guilford Art League, The Madison Art League, the Clinton Art Society, and the Hamden Art League,