Bio: Lara
Scouller graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of
Art and Design, Dundee, 2006. She has been a busy artist since then, with three
solo exhibitions to date, and numerous other shows including the prestigious
Mall Galleries, London – The Pastel Society 2007-9; 2013-2014 (where she won
the the Pastel Society Young Artist Award in 2013); and the Royal Glasgow
Institute of Fine Arts, 149th, 150th and 151st Annual
Exhibition.
Lara has been
featured in many publications, including The Artist Magazine, April 2014; and the Wildlife Art Special, Artists
and Illustrators, Nov 2013. Most recently her work was showcased in the Pastel
Journal, February 2015.
Collections
include: Bell Pettigrew Museum, St
Andrews, The University of Dundee, and the Royal Scottish Academy,
Edinburgh
Lara says: My fascination for
zoological museums began when I was awarded the John Kinross Scholarship to
Florence in 2006. It was there that I stumbled upon the Museo La Specola.
Although some of the objects on display were slightly macabre, a large number
of the specimens caught my attention and laid the foundation for a continued
fascination with this subject matter.
Since then I have
travelled extensively in search for similar subjects including several lengthy
stays in Tring which houses one of the largest ornithological collections in
the world. Closer to home I have found Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the
D’arcy Thompson’s Zoology Museum in Dundee, Aberdeen’s Zoology collection and
lately St. Andrews Bell Pettigrew Museum to be rich sources of material.
Lara has also been in Dublin to visit the Dead Zoo (aka the Natural History Museum) and the Natural History Collection Research building in Beggar's Bush.
Medium: Pastel; conté.
Subjects: Animals; People
Style: Illustrative, lively sketches.
Navigation: A Wordpress website. Clear, clean website.
Gallery: Beasts;
Birds; Boats; People
Image View: Thumbnails enlarge in a viewer on the same
page, where they are labelled; they may be downloaded. Her pastel Okapi (21 3/4 x 30 ¾), won
the Plein Air Prize and Millers The City Art Shop Prize at the Paisley Art
Institute, Scottish Drawing Competition 2007.
Demo : No
Blog: Yes, at http://larascouller.tumblr.com/