Jac Scott
Jac Scott MRBS is a multi-award winning visual artist with an international exhibition portfolio. She has been a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors since 2006.
Her exhibition profile includes a sustained catalogue of solo and group exhibitions including galleries: Ghent University, The Stradins Museum Latvia, V&A London, Sheffield Millennium Galleries, RSS London, Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester, Commonwealth Institute London, Museum for Textiles Toronto Canada and Art London Chelsea.
Scott’s practice has featured in several television programmes and appeared widely in the art and national press. She has written two reference books on mixed -media sculpture and taught widely in universities.
In 2014 Jac Scott opened her own fine art gallery in North Norfolk - Utopia: The Unexpected Gallery. In 2019 the gallery expanded and moved to Holt to showcase her paintings and drawings. In 2026 she returned to focussing on drawing and painting full time, whilst working with selected galleries.
Jac Scott's work can currently be seen at The Red Dot Gallery in Holt and at Gallery Unveiled in Aylsham.
Artist Statement
"Art is the chorus for waking and the drug for sleeplessness." Jac Scott
My paintings are emotional expressions, not copies of anything stagnant. I want them to be transitional - to carry one to another place - to form a ticket to ride. Painting requires concentration and control, and yet however much you master the materials, there is always an element of serendipity that I love. That unexpected joy or horror that emerges when you think it's safe. This duality of agony and ecstasy whilst painting becomes a canvas full of problems to solve and I am elated if I manage to master them. Such an absorbing activity is demanding both mentally and physically, especially when I work on the big panels. The width and longevity of my art practice definitely informs my painting. It has nuances towards sculpture - planning in three dimensions, layering and cutting back.