Sandy Scott, Requiem For the Fallen, bronze, 18 x 33 x 8.
The past year and its many disruptions proved challenging for some artists, but sculptor Sandy Scott was not one of them. “Artists were experiencing creative blocks,” Scott says, “but I went on a creative binge.” At 77 and with a compromised immune system, doctors advised the Wyoming-based sculptor to quarantine, and that isolation resulted in some 30 new pieces..
Over the years she has impressed art and wildlife lovers with her lifelike bronze depictions of animals native to the West. But during quarantine, other ideas percolated. “I thought this was the perfect time to create a camel,” she says. “I could do it just for myself.” She also further explored a more fragmented, truncated style. “My goal is to present the fragment or partial figure as the essence of a new idea,” she explains.
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- Sandy Scott, Equus Found, bronze, 23 x 41 x 8.
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- Sandy Scott, Red-Tailed Hawk at Sappa Creek, bronze, 36 x 28 x 22.
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- Sandy Scott, Flightless Tondo, bronze, 17 x 17.
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- Sandy Scott, Ovis Aries, bronze, 10 x 13 x 5.
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- Sandy Scott, Ancient Passage, bronze, 23 x 23 x 8.
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- Sandy Scott, Red-Tailed Hawk at Sappa Creek, bronze, 36 x 28 x 22.
Her cache of new artworks also features familiar animals such as bulls, roosters, horses, dogs, and of course, birds. Scott has a special talent for evoking movement in her creatures, and her feathered friends seem ready to soar through the skies. She attributes her ability to capture flight, in part, to the fact that she’s a licensed pilot and understands aerodynamics.
As this story was going to press, Scott was heading out of Wyoming for the first time in a year, bound for a meeting at Brookgreen Gardens, a sculpture and wildlife preserve in South Carolina. “Some people my age are slowing down, but I seem to be going in the opposite direction,” she says.
Scott is represented by Broadmoor Galleries, Colorado Springs, CO; Cheryl Newby Gallery, Pawley’s Island, SC; Columbine Gallery, Loveland, CO; Davis & Blevins Gallery, Saint Jo, TX; Knox Gallery, Avon, CO; McBride Gallery, Annapolis, MD; Montgomery-Lee Gallery, Park City, UT; Mountain Trails Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM; The Red Piano Gallery, Bluffton, SC; and Wilcox Gallery, Jackson, WY. –Bonnie Gangelhoff
This story appeared in the May 2021 issue of Southwest Art magazine.