Born in France, I have lived and worked in Scotland as Senior French Language Tutor and Course Director at the University of St Andrews.

Since my retirement, I have become an even more prolific painter than before. My paintings, all in oil, are works of the imagination, inspired by my experiences in France and Scotland. They express my fascination with the natural environment and with the ways in which living creatures – birds, animals, human beings – respond and react to it.

They fall into three broad groups:

“Landscapes”.

These include landscapes and seascapes, often in semi-stylized forms and painted in the exciting colours that are one of the foremost characteristics of my style.

“People”:

Reflective faces, mainly of girls or women; groups of people entwined; vibrant or mysterious images with morphing or interfused faces.

“People and Landscapes” together.

Mythical and imaginary representations of both, for this is a celebration of people and nature, often depicted as symbolic figures living in a mimetic relationship to the natural world and barely distinguishable from it.

Whatever the sources of my work, all paintings translate, through my characteristic brush strokes, the meaning of self, of life, the importance of cultural roots, memory, thoughts and moods.

Paintings displayed on this web site offer a broad spectrum of my work, corresponding to the above three groups.

Isabelle Salit Scott (I.S.)