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Her work is in collections across North America and Asia. Critically acclaimed as "cutting edge", "ground breaking" and "strikingly innovative", Amanta Scott has exhibited and performed extensively in art galleries, museums, theatres, dance, concert venues and festivals throughout Asia and North America including:
Her current passion is encaustic painting and performing the piano music of her grandfather, composer/author Cyril Scott, who advocated “unity in diversity” a concept core to her own philosophy. With ancestral roots in all continents, Amanta draws from pan-global arts, music, language, philosopy, mythology and spirituality, exploring themes and images that resonate across world cultures. Amanta has travelled extensively, circumnavigating the world several times. Active as both a professional visual artist and a professional musician, Amanta is equally at home in either discipline. Blurring the boundaries betweeen visual art, music theatre and dance, since 1996, she coined the term Syncretic Art - the fusion of disparate elements - to describe her work integrating visual arts: sculpture, painting, encaustic, surround-sound audio, video; music: piano, percussion, voice; theatre, language and performance. She received a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Toronto and studied sculpture independently at Central Technical School Art Centre. In Japan she studied Noh Mask Carving with Sensei Fujio Fujimori; Butoh (dance) with Sensei Kazuo Ono.
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Amanta Scott is the granddaughter of British composer Cyril Scott. She designed and maintains the official Cyril Scott website: http://www.cyrilscott.net
Amanta Scott is also the Artistic Director and co-founder of Leading Tone Arts Productions Inc., an innovative not-for-profit charitable arts organization that promotes arts, environmental and cross-cultural awareness, educating through installations, exhibitions, workshops & performances around the world. For more information . . . http://www.leadingtonearts.com |
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Encaustic: derives from the Greek word: "enkaustikos" which means "to heat" or "to burn". Encaustic painting involves applying layers of molten pigmented beeswax (mixed with molten resin to increase hardness) and fusing each new layer to the one beneath it to simultaneously paint and sculpt a surface. Encaustic is the term for both the medium of pigmented wax, and the process involving heat, by which the medium is applied and secured. Encaustic paintings exhibit a unique luminosity, as light passes through transparent or translucent layers of wax and is reflected up to the surface, illuminating the painting from within. Encaustic painting dates back to ancient Greece. In Greco-Roman Egypt, 100 B.C. to A.D. 200, encaustic portrait paintings - the Fayum Portraits - were set into mummy casings. |
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