Maureen Scott

Maureen began drawing and painting as a small child. She went on to attend Plymouth College of Art in the early 60’s, then Goldsmiths College and Central St. Martins in the 70’s. At the age of 50 she suffered a breakdown after her husband died and was admitted to Maudsley Hospital. Despite these turbulent years Maureen has accomplished a great deal including having her poetry published, making films, working in Fleet Street as a professional litho printer and showing her artwork in exhibitions in the Whitechapel Gallery London, Galerie Poll in Berlin and as far afield as Delhi and the USA.

“I could not live without canvases, paint boxes, and easels. I was born with images in my head and I have a compulsion to make these images real. Some images are happy, some horrific. Some use colour the effect the viewer. My pictures are where I make the life I want to live. Unlike some fashionable, thus mega-rich artists who claim they believe in nothing, I am the opposite. I am full to the brim with everything and it over flows onto my canvas. I cannot stop it.” –  Maureen Scott