"As Henry David Thoreau succinctly stated: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” I have spent my life painting and drawing in order to understand what I see and seeing to understand what I make. My work is based on observation combined with a desire to visually interpret nature, landscape, and culture. 
 
I am continually moving between producing paintings, drawings, prints, and animations. For me observation comes first, whether I am on a city street or in the mountains I am always looking for what catches my eye, what excites me visually, what surprises me by humor, beauty, or conflict.  I then take what I have witnessed and reinterpret this imagery through form, light, color, and meaning. The medium guides my process as much as anything. The texture of paint or a piece of paper influences the marks I make by hand and guides the content of my work."  -  Scott Duce