Sally Scott Retrospective; Glass, Paintings and Prints

Sally Scott

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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.

'Villages, Vignes et Garrigues'

In the Spring of 2026, Sally exhibited drawings and prints

inspired by the landscapes of the Herault region in the South of France.

Centre Culturel de St Laurent, Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert 34150 France

Oil Painting of French village, vines and landscape by Sally Scott

She first visited the region in 1961 when her uncle Bill Garrad bought the Chateau d’Arboras, a small village in the department de L’Herault, Languedoc-Roussillion situated in the low foothills of the Massif Central. Bill and Bouton Garrad owned the chateau for over 50 years were both also painters.

In 1967, after regular visits to the chateau, she bought a simple medieval stone house situated at the end of the village with rocky mountain terraces behind and views to the North, South, East and West.

She continues to be inspired by the light and colour of the Midi; the cypresses, vines, olive trees, rocks, mountains and sunshine.

New Work

Still Life

Oil on Canvas 50 x 50 cm

poil painting of a bench in front of window with pots and brushes

Morning Light

Oil on Canvas

54 x 64 cm

Teapots

Oil on Canvas 50 x 50 cm

oil painting of a cat looking out of a window

Here and There

Oil on Canvas

61 x 77 cm

10 Favourite Jugs

Oil on Canvas 50 x 50 cm

My Back Garden

Oil on Canvas 50 x 70 cm

Blue and Yellow

Oil on Canvas 40 x 40 cm

Isolation oil painting by Sally Scott 40cm square 2022

Morning Coffee

Oil on Canvas 40 x 40 cm

SOLD

Blue Anemones

Oil on Canvas 40 x 40 cm

The Conservatory

Oil on Canvas 80 x 100 cm

Spring in the Studio

Oil on Canvas 80 x 60 cm

The Wednesday Isolationists

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

Please check out their website which updates regularly 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 9 metre high Sandblasted Glass Panel by Sally Scott, Leeds Minster

'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.

CLICK HERE for more Information and to buy the book

Visit the Glasswork Gallery

Paintings, Pastels and Prints

Oil Painting Approaching Storm View towards Montpeyrous Languedoc South West France by Sally Scott

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 Sandblasted Blue Glass Disc by Sally Scott

'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

Visit the Glass Disc Gallery

Paintings on steel

Swimmer Sandblasted Aluminium by Sally Scott

'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

Visit the Steel Painting Gallery

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

Visit the Filmwork Gallery