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Inward Eye
Inward Eye highlights examples of paintings by Michael Scott
spanning a twenty year period. Each painting has a narrative
giving the artists perspective of his inspiration for the piece.
This work is produced in full colour and case bound. Size is
210mm x 210mm.
Available now!
£30.00 +p&p
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Dr. Michael Scott has had overlapping
careers in biology, business strategy, and the arts.
Michael is the author of several
books, he is also a prolific painter and shares his
passion for the arts by encouraging and supporting others in
their craft. His latest novel. 'Siren Voices' has recently been
released. A book of Michael's paintings, 'Inward Eye', is also
available. Michael is currently working on
his next novel due for publication in 2008.
Click on the following links to read more about Michael's
titles:
The Quest of Oswin Anfortas
Siren Voices
Inward Eye
Mystikos |
Here are a selection of images from Being Visual. Click on
thumbnails to see larger image.
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Reviews...Reviews...Reviews...
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In this book Michael
Scott presents us with a brilliant visual exploration of the
world around us and the relationship between humanity and
nature, through his unique style that incorporates aspects of
Expressionistic, Impressionistic and abstract techniques.
The Artist provides great insight into his work
with a constant poetical commentary however, one of the most
interesting things about the book is that the artist does not
attempt to impose his own perspective on the reader, we are
constantly challenged to reach our own interpretations and
conclusions about the work, I find this to be much more engaging
than simply being fed all of the information and intentions.
The work that I personally responded to most was
`Black-Headed Gulls' a very chaotic image portraying a flock of
gulls fighting for food scraps unearthed by a farmers plough, I
found the fluidity and movement in the painting stunning. The
chaos and sense of danger creates a brutal, realistic reflection
of the relationship between man and the natural world that
inspires a multitude of emotions.
This
book is an excellent introduction Abstract art, as well as
providing some very thought provoking reading and I would highly
recommend it to anyone considering a purchase.
M.
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The Inwardness of Nature...
To someone who has long
struggled with abstract art this collection came rather as a
revelation. The artist seems to hit the spot between
representation and abstraction, and open up to this viewer, and
reader, a genuinely new vision. Far more than usually, I felt I
was seeing something new through the artist's eyes and, more
important, feeling something new through his feelings. Now I
know that may be an illusion, at least partly, for it is
integral to art's mystery that the artist opens up individual
feelings, which may not be his or her own. Detouring round this
question of aesthetics, I can say quite honestly that many of
the pictures here left me feeling a bit like stout Cortez,
"silent upon a peak in Darien." I have never seen nature like
this, but the funny thing is that looking in a kind of quizzical
way at them, I had an overwhelming sense not of seeing nature
but of feeling it in a strange kind of active passivity. I mean
that some part of my mind was trying to interpret, but another
kind was simply accepting. At least, that's what I think I mean.
I can't recall any other book, or visit to a gallery, that has
had such a powerful effect. Made me rather speechless.
F.C. Parkinson
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