Scott Anthony is known to jazz fans as the leader of the Golden Gate Rhythm Machine and the guitarist in Bob Schultz’s Frisco Jazz Band. He has also had a 40-year career as an artist in oil, watercolor, and acrylic, winning numerous awards and according to his website, having his paintings displayed in over 3,000 corporate and private collections.
Scott was drawn to painting, initially in watercolors, during his sophomore year at Dartmouth College where he was a biology major specializing in ecology and evolutionary biology. It wasn’t long before a local gallery in Hanover, NH offered to display some of his paintings, and he soon developed an extensive list of collectors.
As Scott explained, “I fell in love with the process of sketching structures and New England landscapes and translating them into finished paintings. I began to view almost every landscape as a possible subject for a painting, unconsciously rearranging and filtering elements and determining how light hits the scene to produce the most visual impact.”
“My ultimate motivation for painting has always been my intense desire to share the beauty and unity of the natural world. I want people to feel the same joy and excitement that I do when a beautiful scene suddenly pops into view. I love exploring how the sun
