About the Artist

 Thanks for visiting my online studio. I believe art and beauty have inherent value. I paint layered still lifes and landscapes in oil, often using fruit, branches, and bold contour lines to explore memory, beauty, and repair.

I’m drawn to the idea that a painting can hold memory and present experience at the same time. Again and again, my work returns to the places where light meets fracture — and to the hope that what is broken is not wasted.

I want my paintings to slow the eye and invite a deeper kind of seeing. For me, creating art is one of the bravest things I do.

— Amanda

I was born and raised in the South. While studying at the University of Tennessee, an invitation to an art class quietly altered the direction of my life. I am hearing and vision impaired, and painting has become my disciplined way of seeing — a sustained attention to light, form, and color. It slows me down. It teaches me to notice.

I work in oil in a modern cloisonnist language defined by bold hand-drawn contour lines and layered fields of color. My process often begins with one image and builds over time, allowing earlier forms to remain beneath the surface — a quiet record of what came before. I’m drawn to that layering; it feels true to how life forms within us.

Fruit recurs throughout my work as a visual framework for growth, abundance, fragility, and time. I’m deeply interested in the tension between structure and overflow — how something can feel both contained and expansive at once.

I paint both en plein air and in the studio, from the Smoky Mountains to places abroad, translating place through my distinct way of seeing. I hope the work invites you to slow down and notice what is already present.

Amanda Scott — Knoxville, Tennessee Oil painter | modern impressionism | en plein air & studio

 

 

Selected Juried Exhibitions & Events

2026
American Impressionist Society — 10th Annual Impressions: Small Works Showcase, Maui at Wailea

2025
The District Gallery — Big Tiny Show
American Impressionist Society — Associate Member Online Juried Exhibition — Bishop’s Mountain
Knoxville Museum of Art — Artists on Location (Juried Plein Air) — Knoxville, TN
Arts & Culture Alliance — National Juried Exhibition — Knoxville, TN

2024
The District Gallery — Big Tiny Show

2023
The District Gallery — Big Tiny Show

2022
The District Gallery — Big Tiny Show — Knoxville, TN

2021
Arts in the Airport — Juried Exhibition — TYS

Press & Publications

May 2025 — Cityview Magazine — feature

 

Professional Affiliations

Associate Member — Oil Painters of America
Associate Member — American Impressionist Society
Member — Arts & Culture Alliance of Knoxville

 

Representation

The District Gallery
5113 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919 • 865-200-4452

 

 

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. -C.S Lewis