ARTIST STATEMENT
My abstract paintings are guided by chance and accidental discovery. They embrace the chaos and regularity, the calm entropy that pushes and pulls the world around us. By methodically layering paint, old events are covered up, sometimes rediscovered through transparency or scratch-throughs. The painting builds its own history, allowing viewers to discover many stories within it.

While I avoid direct representation, it is easy to see the landscape in much of my work. The natural world affects much of what I do. I often grab colors, forms and other influences from nature, but the marks I make are more reaction to that than representation. During the mark-making process, I discover unique and appealing aspects of the painting.

ARTIST BIO
R. Scott Horner is an abstract painter working primarily in acrylics and mixed media. He received a B.A. in graphic design from the University of Central Florida in 1990. In 2008, after a 20-year visual journalist career in Florida, Horner moved to North Carolina and turned his creative focus to painting.