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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Meet Scott Pauli! He’s a painter and illustrator. Beach combing and surfing, when Lake Michigan allows, are two of his favorite pastimes. Working across many mediums his work captures the mystery and serenity found in the waters of The Great Lakes and region.
As one of the founders of Art&Sons, a design and art studio in Madison, Scott works on some familiar and high profile commercial projects. At home on Lake Monona where he lives with his family, he loves paddle boarding, canoeing and sailing. It’s these therapeutic waters and shores that inspire Scott’s work.
Scott began his current practice of painting/drawing a decade ago after a painful loss in his life. The practice is an escape, a reflection and meditation on the light still left to be found.
We’re honoted to have Scott as our current Artist in Residence. Drop in to see his work, meditate in his space and catch some good vibes.
SCOTT A. PAULI
ENVIRONMENTAL NARRATIVES
BLOOM CORPS
Bloom - a state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor.
Corps - a body of people engaged in a particular activity.
As the season changes so does the landscape around us. Bloom Corps captures this visually with a strong palette of greens which act as a base to the emerging color that’s reflected by the bloom of croquis, daffodil, red bud, and lilac.
As this seasonal color evolves, so does the narrative. Tashi Koi, Botanical Artist of Mod Nomad, uses this platform for to create harmonious arrangements which symbolically capture this flora evolution.
MIDDLE WESTERN
1960’s cinema captured some dramatic performances and marked by a coming of age story. HUD gave us a gritty Paul Newman and Peter Bogdanovich reflects us coming of age. However, it was Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain that flipped the script.
“You have another little drink and I'll have another little drink. Then maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.”
“It’s not what a man knows, it’s what he fears.”
“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
MIDCENTURY PRAIRIE
Ms. O’keeffe was born on a farm near Sun Prairie, WI and spent her early years in the area attending Sacred Heart Academy, now Edgewood High School and Central High School in Madison. It’s with this note, our Midcentury Prairie Narrative took shape. It evolves with each reset but stays true to Midcentury inspired furniture and decor with a strong O’Keeffe influence.
"I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at—not copy it." - Georgia O’Keeffe
ABIQUIU
Native daughter of Wisconsin, Georgia O’Keeffe’s influence stretches from WI to the concrete and asphalt jungle of NYC to the sun bleached adobe facades of New Mexico. Her artistic approach or vantage point, has been lauded and copied by many. In New Mexico, where, in 1940, O’Keeffe bought a home at the Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, she wore denim and painted the landscapes, she loved to wear men’s shirts paired with bluejeans. She honed her style by borrowing from other nations, too. When she travelled to Japan, she returned with kimonos, one of which she is wore, open and loose, in a Paul Strand portrait from 1918. It’s through this vantage point we created our narrative, Abiquiu.