Scott Wallis’s paintings can be described as colorful,
intense, vibrant and even aggressive.
His impressionistic style makes you feel like you’ve been or want to be
in each scene. He creates a vision of
harmony with such elements as color, texture, light, surface interest and
balance, resulting in exciting works of art.
Born in Ogden, Utah, Wallis was raised in Logan.
He graduated from Utah
State University
in 1980 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and photography. Two years later he received a Bachelor of
Education. After twelve years in the
public school system as a teacher and later as a graphic artist for Weber County
School district, Wallis
left his career in education to pursue his dream as a fine artist.
Wallis’ interest in art started at a n early age. His focus was in photography. His career choice as he entered Utah State
was that of a photographer. As an art
major at U.S.U. he was required to take a number of drawing and painting
classes in addition to his photographic studies. By his second year Wallis’ interest in
painting continued to increase and with strong encouragement from his
professors he earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in 1980, with a duel
emphasis in painting and photography.
The crowning achievement was placing second place overall in the annual student
art show in which Wallis was the only undergraduate accepted.
Through the years Scott Wallis has enjoyed several one-man
exhibits of his painting and photographs.
During the past ten years Wallis’ creative efforts have been
passionately devoted to oil painting.
Since becoming a professional artist his work has been widely accepted
and is in many private collections throughout North America, Mexico and Europe.
Wallis’s work is in many public collections including the
following: Weber State University, Utah
State University, Overland Trails Corp., Republican Party Headquarters, Salt
Lake City, EPA Director, Governor Michael Leavitt, Washington, DC, Salt Lake
Golf Country Club, Ogden Weber Applied Tech. College, Davis Applied Tech.
College, Wasatch Property Management, Inc., and Weber County School District.
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