"Colleen" by Iris Scott

Media: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28”x 28”

Date: 2012

 Iris Scott is a 28 year old American painter. She graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2009, and has been traveling the world and painting since. Scott developed a unique painting method- finger-painting with surgical gloves on her hands while living in Taiwan. Her paintings are inspired by her travels through Taiwan, Thailand, Nicaragua, and other parts of the world.

 The artist statement that Iris wrote for this paintings is as follows:“Stress is not my friend, I avoid it all costs. On the rare occasion that something comes up that truly shakes me I try hard to find my way to the studio. Smooshing colorful oils from a tube and smearing them on a white canvas with your fingertips is, by no surprise, a soothing pass time. “Colleen” is one of the only paintings which I can recall being made under such circumstances. This might explain the intensely bright “happy” colors I reached for that day.”

 This particular piece was created by Iris Scott during a period of stress. As Scott herself said, making this painted was a calming exercise. While painting, Iris Scott puts the oil paints directly on her fingers, and then uses all her fingers to spread the paint.

 Colleen is a spellbound autumn moment. Colleen walks down an idyllic path lined with deciduous trees and autumn leaves swirling around. This art piece shows the extent of the artist’s imagination.