Tom Scott (painter, born 1928)

His career, spanning six decades, included architecture, sculpture, furniture design, photography and video and demonstrated an underlying conviction that painting needed to embrace change to remain vital.

[6] Starting out as an Abstract Expressionist[9][10] he began painting on photographs in the 1950s[12] in response to the emerging world of digital image processing.

He brought into schools clowns, puppeteers, drummers and other musicians, poets and visual artists to replace teachers who were on strike.

[20] Following retirement he worked as an art therapist at City Hospital[21] and exhibited work with Artists Equity and Artscape in Baltimore and with Studio Gallery and Touchstone Gallery in Washington DC[6] In 1982 he had a solo exhibition of large format painted photographs at The Women's National Bank [22] In the mid 1980s Scott folded the painted photographs he had been making for years, taking them off the wall and transforming them into free-standing folding screens.

This was followed by a series of ‘virtual screens’ without centre panels, painting on the frames alone, and window pictures’ with shutter-like frames that swung from the walls[23] In 1987 four of his painted photographs and screens, including Clarence Schmidt's Garden (1985), Fells Point Stove (1972) and Sun Photo/Blue Rain (1985), were selected by Andy Grundberg, Photography Critic at The New York Times, and Sharon Keim, Executive Director, Washington Center for Photography, for the exhibition and lecture by Andy Grundberg, 'The Image and Beyond' held at Duke Ellington School for the Arts, Washington DC[24].