Sally Scott
Painter, Printmaker and Architectural Glass Engraver
Sally Scott
Cert. R.A.S. F.G.E. C.A.S.
Sally Scott studied painting at Croydon College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. She taught at Birmingham School of Art, Hornsey College of Art and Middlesex Polytechnic, 1963-1991.
She has been a working artist all her life, dividing her time between painting and architectural glasswork.
From 1986 to 2000 she worked in partnership with David Peace, as Peace & Scott for collaboration on architectural glass projects.
Sally lives in London.
New Work
Isolation
Oil on Canvas 40 x 40cm
Social Distance
Oil on Canvas 40 x 40cm
Blue Anemones
Oil on Canvas 40 x 40cm
The Conservatory
Oil on Canvas 80 x 100cm
Cafetiere Rouge
Pastel 30 x 40cm
Sally worked regularly with a group of local artists for years, prior to"Lockdown" they had no collective name, but with this new way of working from home they became the Wednesday Isolationists
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with a large range of smaller paintings
Lockdown in Putney 2020, Oil on Canvas 153 x 92 cm
Arboras Le Confinement 2020, Oil on Canvas 122 x 66 cm
You can see more paintings and prints on the gallery page HERE
Retrospective Exhibition
In January 2019 there was a retrospective exhibition of the work of Sally Scott at the Menier Gallery in London
The fully illustrated colour catalogue is still available to buy £10 plus p & p
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Glass Work
'Jacob's Ladder' screen, Leeds Minster
In the exhibition the upstairs gallery of the Menier focused on Scott's architectural glass commissions, these span the UK and include 5 Cathedrals; Ripon, Leicester, St
Albans, Llandaff and Norwich, the west doors of Westminster Abbey, and the Roman Catholic Shrine Church, Walsingham. Several were created in partnership with renowned glass engraver David Peace.
She produced the 'Jacob's Ladder' screen (left) for Leeds Minster in 1989, it is 9 metres high and at the time was the biggest piece of engraved glass commissioned in the UK since Coventry Cathedral in 1960s.
In the exhibition the work was displayed through film, full scale drawings, photographs and samples.
Sally is a fellow of the Guild of Glass Engravers.
A new book about Sally’s glass work was launched during the exhibition. 'My Grandmother's Glass and Me' by Lily Guy-Vogel
The book follows the journey of Sally Scott and her granddaughter Lily as they visit all 48 sites of Sally's glass in public ecclesiastical buildings.
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Paintings, Pastels and Prints
Approaching Storm, Oil on Canvas 90 x 90cm
In the retrospective the downstairs gallery hosted a selection of Scott's prolific output of oil paintings, pastels and prints.
Sally Scott works primarily from life, inspired by her surroundings in her homes in London and Southwest France.
Drawing inspiration from and seeing beauty in what she sees around her
Sally studied painting at The Royal Academy Schools.
Visit the galleries Paintings, Pastels & Prints
Glass Discs
'Moon Lily' c.2001
Sally Scott has also worked on many smaller scale glass projects, including this range of stunning glass discs. These were produced as exhibition pieces, particularly to show with the Guild of Glass Engravers.
Each disc is between 55 - 75cm in diametre, they are hand made with flash glass by Neil Wilkin. This is a technique which fuses two layers of coloured glass together, Scott sandblasts into one of the layers to remove the colour and create the image.
One of the discs 'Rajasthan' was made by Scott after a trip to that area of India in 1997, it is currently in the collection of the Birmingham Museum
Paintings on steel
'Swimmer' Sandblasted Steel, 1972
In the 1970s Sally began to experiment with innovative techniques of sandblasting and painting on metal, aluminium and stainless steel, this led her into the glass work. Some of these pivotal works are in the show.
These represent a small but very important stage in Sally Scott's career and are much sort after; a very small number will be for sale in the exhibition
Work for Film
From the 1960s to the 1980s, Scott worked on a variety of films. Particularly for Production Designer Asshetton Gorton.
A selection of some of the work produced at this time is on display including huge (up to 14 foot wide) canvasses from the iconic 1960s film, The Bliss of Mrs Blossom starring Shirley MacLaine
