Biography
Jeanne Filler Scott paints wildlife and domestic animal subjects with attention to anatomy, character and personality. The animals in her paintings project a living presence and individuality.
When you look into the eyes of one of her animals, you feel the animal looking back at you. Jeanne says, "I paint with the understanding that each animal is unique. The animal may represent the entire species as an ideal, but on a deeper level, the animal before me is an individual. I try to do justice to my subjects and give their images the vitality and character they deserve."
An interviewer once wrote that the animals in her paintings contain the "spark of life." When viewing one of her paintings, you immediately get the feeling she has for her subjects, with subtleties of their characters and expressions finding expression in paint because of sympathetic understanding.
A sense of individual life is what Jeanne imparts so well. The calm eyes of a bison follow you around a room; a foal stands undecided whether to run away or take a lump of sugar from your hand; three wolves languidly watch you from a sun-warmed rock in a snowy landscape. Jeanne's paintings are celebrations of life.
Support for Conservation:
For 23 years, my family and I have lived on an old farm where most areas have been untouched for many years, supporting all kinds of wild plants and animals in various habitats, such as woods, unmowed fields, ponds, creeks, wet weather streams, and the Beech Fork River, which borders the land on three sides. Large patches of various species of milkweed grow which allow Monarch Butterflies and other birds and insects to flourish. The land supports many living things, including eastern box turtles, red and gray foxes, whitetail deer, coyotes, groundhogs, opossums, raccoons, barred owls, great horned owls, red-tailed hawks, black vultures and turkey vultures, many songbirds, great blue herons, several species of squirrels, cottontail rabbits, various snake species, frogs, toads, salamanders, numerous plant species, and many more. This is my main avenue for contributing to conservation, as hunting, trapping, and fishing is prohibited on the land, providing a sanctuary for wildlife.
The Nature Conservancy: My family also supports the national Nature Conservancy with donations. In the 1990's, I illustrated a brochure with pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings for the Nature Conservancy Kentucky Chapter. The illustrations depicted endangered speciies native to Kentucky. The brochure was the winner of the Award of Merit for the 1996 Bronze Quill Awards given by the International Association of Business Communicators.
We also donate to various other conservation groups, including the African Wildlife Foundation, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Center for Biological Diversity, World Animal Protection, Primate Rescue Center, and the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital.