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William Scott
Jennings has been a professional artist since 1973. He began his career in commercial
art; gallery exposure began in 1976; and by 1978 he was showing his work
in New Mexico ,
Arizona and
Texas . After residing in Taos, New Mexico
for 15 years and Sedona, Arizona for 14 years; Scott moved to Boulder, CO
in 2009. His paintings are in corporate and
private collections around the world, including the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC
and the Ford Motor
Company.
Jennings is a
Master Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America
(OPA-M), a Signature
Member of the Laguna Plein Air
Painters Association (LPAPA), Plein Air Artists Colorado
(PAAC) and the Rocky Mountain
Plein Air Painters
(RMPAP), as well as an 'Out of State Artist' member of the California Art
Club (CAC).
Feature articles about
Jennings ’ work have appeared
in Southwest Art Magazine, Art of the
West Magazine, Western Art Collector Magazine, Focus Magazine
Santa Fe
and Art Business News as well as
features and the cover art in American Artist Magazine, International Artist Magazine
and The Artist’s Magazine.
The
Eiteljorg
Museum in
Indianapolis , IN
has invited Scott to participate in their "Quest for the
West" exhibit and sale in September, 2006, 2007, 2008 and
2009 shows.
The 2005 Oil
Painters of America
National
Show awarded Jennings
the Award of Excellence
for Master Signature Members for his painting, “
Mystical
Canyon ”.
Jennings was a
participating artist in the national museum exhibition, "From Sea to
Shining Sea
".
It
was
a nationally touring exhibit of 13 museums across the
United States
for a period of three years.
Scott was chosen as the show poster artist for the
Sedona Plein Air 2005 and the Telluride Plein Air 2004. He was the guest speaker at the 2004 Desert Plein Air show in La
Quinta, CA and taught a plein air workshop as part of the event.
Jennings was
part of two national invitational shows in 2001: " Grand Canyon Expressions" at the Forbes
Gallery in New York ,
NY and
Burlingame , CA
; 15 artists made an eight day painting expedition down the
Colorado River into the Grand
Canyon . He was also invited to participate in "Contemporary Artists Paint
Yosemite " at the Haggin Museum in
California .
His painting “The Red Wall” was chosen as the cover art
for
America
West Airlines’ in flight magazine for the
August 2001 issue. The Oil
Painters of America’s 10th Annual National Show awarded Jennings the
Founders’ Award for his painting “Winter Sun”, and in 2004 he
received the Masters Merit Award. The 2001 Laguna Beach Plein Air
Invitational awarded Scott an honorable mention for his painting
“Sunset on Crystal Cove. Scott also received best of show at the 1999 Impressionaire Show at the PGA West Country
Club in La Quinta, CA and honorable mention in 2000. The PBS television series, The Artists Workshop featured
Mr. Jennings as he produces a plein air painting for the fourth episode in
the 2001 line up.
The 1998 Arts for the Parks Show named
Jennings as the Best of Show Gold Medal and Grand
Prize Winner for his painting “Timeless Beauty”. The show receives
approximately 2400 entries annually. In the 1994 Arts for the Parks Show, his
painting “Sunset on Isis” was the region II winner, an award for
the best painting of the southwest region of the United States. It was the recipient of a Silver Medal and reproduced as
part of the 1994 National Park
Stamp. The Grand Canyon National Park used Scott’s painting as the
invitation image for the Arts for the Parks exhibit at the Canyon. Jennings’ work was in the top 100
show for five years in a row before retiring from the competition after
his 1998 win.
Two of Jennings’ paintings have been used as cover art for
books: A Roadside Guide to Rocky Mountain
National Park and most recently, Physical Geology, a college
textbook. In 1989, Scott
participated in the first of several group shows in the major cities of
Japan
. His
work consistently sold throughout the country. The 1988 festival celebrating the
20th anniversary of the Wild and
Scenic Rivers Act commissioned Jennings to produce a poster for the
event. Scott spent a month as
the guest artist of Rocky Mountain
National Park and the first painter given the honor of ‘Artist in Residence’. The 1985 Wilderness Art Exhibit chose
Jennings’ “The Elk Range” as the show poster for the event. Scott won three top awards at
the 1984 New Mexico Professional
Art Exhibit and the painting is now part of the collection at the New Mexico State Capitol in Santa
Fe.
Notable collectors include Ford Motor Company, Christopher
Forbes, William Shatner, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell and Congressman David
Dreier.
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A complete list of shows and honors here...
