Scott Garder, Young Woman, Illuminated

Growing up an only child, Scott Garder (b. 1986) spent long periods of his youth alone contemplating the natural world around him. In this deep observation of his surroundings, he began at an early age to develop a keen sense of perception and visual memory. Whether laying in a field of grass in the foothills of Northern California watching shapeshifting summer clouds, or taking pencil to paper drawing everything from oak trees to comic book characters, Scott’s imagination and visual acuity began incubating from his earliest childhood memories.