Beginning January 7th, running until February 28th, selected paintings will be displayed and available for purchase by Scott Paterson, along with works of Diana Perron at the New Haven Lawn Club in Connecticut.

Scott Paterson, an experienced painter, focuses on three main subjects in this show: people, places, and things. His unique style can be noted throughout all three themes. Most of his work is done using acrylic on canvas. His generous use of color, along with his attention to light and shadow is admirable in the wide range of subjects included in his paintings.

Mr. Paterson describes his thoughts behind each theme he chose for this show. Scott says his reasoning behind "people" as a theme was that, "I stopped drawing people in my twenties (I'm 64), and never really painted pictures of them. In the last few years, however, I've returned to doing some life drawing with a very nice group that meets on Monday nights in Branford, and it's renewed my interest in the human form as topic."

He also chose places, he explains, because, "As a college student, I would scan through black and white real estate flyers and, when I found a suitable composition, try to interpret it in color, on canvas. Then followed about thirty years of painting in an almost exclusively nonobjective mode. About eight years ago, I returned to the theme of how light falls on and around houses, this time working from my own photos."

Lastly, he says "things" became a theme when, "Maybe 25 years ago, I started making tiny collages as blueprints for larger, nonobjective paintings. Sometimes the collage became three-dimensional, and would resemble a small model, or maquette. Hence, the more recent Maquette Series, a bunch of little sculptural items made out of paper, wood, string, etc., placed before a background, real or imagined, and painted as a subject."

I highly recommend that you attend the New Haven Lawn Club sometime before the 28th of February. Scott Paterson's use of color and shadow will leave you admiring the various people, places, and things he has painted and shared in the show. The regular viewing hours are from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., seven days a week. Join Scott at the reception, held Wednesday, February 3rd, from 5-7 p.m.