Scratching Out Stars (2007) Sculpture by Scott Hill

Scott Hill has a deeply spiritual bond to art. He sites "creativity" as the "religion" in his life. For him, the worship of this "creative life force" manifests in an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a search for "All that is possible in the world".

A true self taught renaissance man, this life-long Bergen County NJ resident began showing an affinity for design at age 6, and has been painting, building, decorating and sculpting, ever since.

Scott grew up as an only-child, suburbanite "latch-key kid" in the shadow of New York City. He passed much of the time after school drawing, and experimenting with the various tools and materials he found on his Fathers basement woodworking bench. Nails, wire, cardboard, string, metal and wood became his childhood toys of choice. Born into a large extended family of professional dancers, musicans and theatrical players, his expressions were fostered by eveyrone around him as an un-deniable gift.

As an adolecent, Hill amerced himself in studying the technique of the artists that adorned the album covers in his music collection. "Artist like Roger Dean, Rodney Matthews, Derek Riggs and Stanley Mouse became the foundation of all my early work." states Hill. Soon after, he discovered Maxfield Parish, and Alberto Varga to guide him toward the study of realism in watercolor, gouache, and ink. After many years of working strictly in realism, Hill eventually felt his work lacking passion and pursued a career in his other passion of music.

In 2005 Hill began a 2 year apprenticeship in tattooing which has re-ignited his love of fine art. He began a personal quest to live his art as a profession, and to study classic and modern art history and technique.

Recently his painting and collage work has been highly influenced by, and at time seems reminiscent of artists like Joan Miro, Arshile Gorky, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollack, Roy Lichtenstein, Willie Cole and Arthur Dove.

His style is a modern, delicate, balance of Abstract Impressionism, Pop art, and touch of Surrealist Dada.

Scott has also melded his personal passion for environmentalism into his art by utilizing old, worn, vintage, or disposed of items. Turning back to his original childhood fascination with raw materials, He works in an almost instinctual way with found and donated materials such as denim, string, wood, fibers, foam, reclaimed leftover paint, bio-degradables, glass, cardboard, and printed papers.

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : 1967
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• Groups: Contemporary American Artists