In 2001 Richard Scott forsook his very successful ‘day job’ as technical illustrator-turned-IT specialist to pursue his passion for art full-time. Born in Britain in 1968 but now residing in South Africa, he started drawing at an early age, always scribbling down ideas, but it was to take him almost 30 years to arrive at his vocation as a fully fledged artist.

His work exhibits some characteristics that may be associated with the 1960s Pop Art movement, yet it defies simplistic categorisation, oscillating as it does between naively decorative and super contemporary. Scott’s vision is personal and reflective. Though his images sometimes appear simplistic, they form a complex and coherent whole. Using a variety of painting, sculpture, drawing and graphic media, he borrows images from the world of popular and consumer culture to convey his perceptual messages. Cars, planes, flowers, trees, women, lighthouses and African animals combine to form Scott’s personal iconography. He constantly modifies and re-examines old imagery, but when viewed in terms of ideas rather than chronology, the stylistic cohesion of his work becomes apparent.

Richard has collaborated to produce bodies of work with Vespa, Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu and DJ BlackCoffee