{"id":45165,"date":"2001-01-11T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-12T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=45165"},"modified":"2023-12-14T08:14:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:14:07","slug":"scott-bevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/scott-bevan\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Bevan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>My love of drawing was refined at Art Center College of Design, where I graduated in industrial design in 1979, and expanded throughout my career as an environmental branding and graphic designer. In the past few years I have been smitten with landscape painting in the traditional medium of oils. Though not classical-trained as a painter, I have studied with David Cheifetz, Terry Muira, David Koch, Randall Sexton, and Scott Christensen, to name a few. Much like my approach to conceptual sketching in a gestural fashion, my goal in painting is to engage the viewer in the completion of the scene before them in their own sensatory way. Built upon my experience as a designer in the corporate world, the words of John F. Carlson &#8211;\u201dToo much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts\u201d&#8211; speaks acutely to my own approach to landscape painting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>William Butler Yeats said, \u201cThe world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.\u201d I feel like that is the path I am on as every new vista brings new challenges to interpret that which arouses the painter inside me!<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/scott-bevan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53152\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/scott-bevan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"738\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/scott-bevan.jpg 738w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/scott-bevan-350x356.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My love of drawing was refined at Art Center College of Design, where I graduated in industrial design in 1979, and expanded throughout my career as an environmental branding and graphic designer. In the past few years I have been smitten with landscape painting in the traditional medium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1645,"featured_media":53152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,111],"tags":[4524,3464],"class_list":["post-45165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting","category-utah-artists-b","tag-scott-bevan","tag-utah-county-artist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/scott-bevan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 16:15:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53154,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45165\/revisions\/53154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}