Scott Hale
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Looking back on an itinerant youth growing up all over the country, it seems that the one big constant about Scott was his love of art. As far back as he can recall, visual expression through drawing and painting had been his foremost fascination. But he says the idea of becoming
a professional artist "had to incubate in him for a while." In 2003, after seven years in commercial construction, he hung up his project manager's hat and relocated with his wife and young family to Bozeman, Montana. There, he began painting full time, and catching up on all the fly fishing he didn't do as a younger man. Surrounded by the mountains, bold sky, moving water and trout that are the subjects of his pastel and oil paintings, he has found a place to settle down and call home. His angling art is sometimes about the fish, sometimes about the anglers, and often just about the riverscapes, both near and far from Bozeman. Scott has been an "Artist to Watch" in Southwest Art magazine, and was invited to have his trout art on the wine label for the Jackson Hole One Fly competition in 2006. Keeping an eager eye open to the stimuli around him, he continues to view and interpret the natural world and the angler's place in it through a variety of means and from myriad angles. |
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