About the artist                                                               

After traveling internationally as a child, Scott Lennox was raised and has spent most of his life in Texas.  Following a career as a commercial photographer, he shifted to formal study of drawing and painting, where he says he is always looking for what lies beyond the obvious—for what is just below the surface.  He has long been inspired by the Victorian poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, who wrote of inscape, the quiet and gradual self-revealing of the inner nature of things.  And like Hopkins, Lennox is drawn to the serenity of quiet places and natural settings. 

As both painter and poet, Lennox strikes a natural balance between his writing and his visual art.  He crafts poetry that is rich in visual imagery and creates landscapes in oil and in watercolor that are quietly, yet solidly poetic. 

Scott began exploring the Brazos River and the countryside around it in his boyhood.  Those first experiences allowed him direct contact with life around him and with a deeper part of himself.  It is near and on the river that he has most recently focused his artistic energies.  His drawings and paintings allow us to step out of ordinary experience and into silence and mystery. 

He continues to study painting and to create musical works with his friend and mentor Scott Gentling, to whom, he says, he is deeply indebted. Gentling and Lennox first performed their composition, Brazos River Suite, at the memorial held for Gentling's late brother, Stuart.

In December of 2006, Lennox presented a solo exhibition of work he called Brazos River Country—drawings, paintings, field notes, music, and his first volume of poetry.  His works are held in private and corporate collections throughout the country and internationally.  Two of his paintings hung in the United States Embassy residence in Geneva and have been recently moved to Moscow as part of the State Department’s Art In Embassies program. 


 Exhibitions
  

Heroes of Imagination Celebration, Fort Worth, Texas, 2009
Artspace 111, Landscapes Exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas, 2009
Art In Embassies Program, Moscow, Russia, 2009

Art In Embassies Program, Geneva, Switzerland, 2006

Solo Exhibition, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, December 2006

Brother/Sister Exhibition, Southwind Gallery, Topeka, Kansas, February 2006

Rio Brazos, Langdon Center’s juried exhibition, Granbury, Texas, October 2004

Solo Exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas, February 2004

Edmund Craig Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas, 1999

Main Street Arts Festival, Fort Worth, Texas, Spring 1989

Frontroom Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Fall 1988

Dutch Phillips Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas,  Spring 1988


Links

You can see Scott on the web on Veria.  www.veria.com/video/scott-lennox-what-the-river-taught-me.html

Or on YouTube, where he will post studio updates from time to time.
Painting "Canyon Storm":  www.youtube.com/watch  
Painting "Sanctuary":  www.youtube.com/watch 
Painting "Santa Fe Sunset": www.youtube.com/watch 
Drawing "My Father's Eyes":  www.youtube.com/watch?v=akLgYQsixVA&feature=channel