Jeremy Scott
Jeremy Scott combined painting with bookselling for over 30 years before committing to painting fulltime in 2020. He completed an MA in Painting at the Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) in 2021 and was selected as a New Contemporary artist in 2023. Scott’s work has been exhibited widely and is held in private collections. He is currently part of the Turps Studio Programme.
Bio
Personal Statement
A painter of people, Scott has a heightened sensibility to day-to-day interactions, the overlooked, the transitory, the claustrophobia of crowds, the grind of daily transit; casual encounters, proximity, anxiety, surveillance, social constructs, and relationship tensions inform his interpretation.
Working with oil, pigment, dispersion, and charcoal, Scott’s process develops sketches from life into paintings that embrace chance and retain evidential process. His aim is to paint what he ‘saw’, recollected or misremembered, using feeling, and personal association to mediate the motif through a personal lens. Compositions can be tense and claustrophobic with a cinematic or photographic feel. A sequence of events is often compressed into a single image and abrupt combinations of scale evoke mystery and heighten narrative. Surfaces are layered, scraped, and continually edited to achieve an eloquent econo-my. The drawn line is a constant.
Scott’s paintings have an undercurrent of social commentary, but they also turn attention back onto the viewer, conferring narrative agency.
Studio, 2025. (® Ellen Kydd)
Current Work
The founding myth for current paintings emanated from the discovery of a photographic slide which, in turn, triggered the blurry recollection of another image, a lost point in time and space, and a paternal relationship cut short. Faint echoes, reengineered by decades of experiences, became eerily pertinent to the ‘now’ that is, apparently, always with us.
