Diana Scott-Auger

How Bovines Beat the Summer Heat

8 x 24 x .75", framed to 23 x 29 x 1.25"

Acrylic on Canvas

$995

Summer heat can be oppressive to cattle as well as humans, so my focus was on the cows at this watering hole. I loved painting them, probably as much as they loved lounging in the coolness of the clay-tinged water.

Artist's Statement:

Rather than adherence to a signature style or subject matter, it is a creative impulse that determines my idea, interpretation and whether I use acrylic paint, pen and ink, or both mediums together.

Using brush strokes resembling the lushness of oils, my acrylic paintings are expressive representations, while with ink, lines define as well as flow unfettered. The goal always is to visually connect and embrace viewers' emotions in order to start a conversation or a story that can be fueled by their imagination.

Painting is my form of meditation. In the studio, I am in a cocoon of calm when touching paint to canvas or ink to paper, and time floats by unnoticed. My signature may mark a piece as finished, but it is the doing -- resolving creative challenges along the way -- which is my reward and completes my personal journey. The hope, of course, is that the viewer's journey with it has only just begun.