Susan G. Scott

Susan G. Scott RCA (born 1949) is a Canadian artist known for both contemporary figurative painting and, more recently, her landscapes. Her work is found in national and international public collections including the Canada Council for the Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Collection du Fonds régional d'art contemporain d’Île-de-France in Paris, Canada - Israel Cultural Foundation in Jerusalem and Houston Baptist University in Texas. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 2013.

Throughout her career, Scott explored various themes, styles and mediums within painting. She uses "traditional codes, often blending them with those of other media – altering her format or adding text – to bend the narrative away from passivity towards communication." Following a brief period of gestural landscapes in the early 1980s, Scott focused on narrative figurative painting with protagonists in dramatic mise en scene inspired by literature or art history. For curator Jane Young, her work "conveys much emotional information through the colours, compositions and titles used." Art historian and critic Hedwidge Asselin noted her skill with light: "the painter’s gaze encompass the forms and volumes, the distances in space, the colors, harmonies, contrasts and values". Described by curator Joan Murray as a "master of colour", in 2014 Scott set aside the figure to convey – in gestural brush stroke on a white ground – "nature as a living, changing subject."