Loss and Found

Exhibition Overview: Loss and Found

Loss and Found is a deeply personal series by Scott Forrest, created during the intimate and often disorienting experience of caring for his mother through her illness and passing. These works are not retrospective reflections but the result of painting in real time—using creativity to navigate the shifting terrain of love, loss, and the fracturing of familiar structures.

The series unfolds across a stairwell and upper gallery, echoing a physical and emotional journey. Bold, layered abstracts speak to the intensity and complexity of this time, while embedded journal fragments offer glimpses into private, moment-to-moment truths. Some works surge with unfiltered emotion; others rest in quiet, suspended thought.

Forrest approaches painting as a visceral process of sense-making—working intuitively to hold what cannot be spoken. This exhibition is not about grief as aftermath, but about living within it, and the fragile strength that creativity offers in the midst of upheaval.

Artist Bio – Scott Forrest

Scott Forrest is an abstract painter based in Greenock, Scotland. He began painting in his 50s with no formal artistic training, though he has always been drawn to creative expression. His emotionally driven, process-led work emerged from a need to communicate experiences that couldn’t be articulated in words.

Forrest’s paintings are layered and intuitive, often incorporating fragments of personal writing. Themes of vulnerability, memory, and transformation recur throughout his practice. His work is not intended to be merely decorative — it challenges and invites emotional reflection, offering space for both disruption and stillness.

Since beginning his art journey, Forrest has exhibited across Scotland, won an award at The Big Art Show in 2023, and was published as part of Curtains with The Alchemy Experiment. His studio with Outer Spaces has been integral to his development, enabli

Artist Statement – Scott Forrest

I began painting in my 50s, without formal artistic training, but with a strong creative instinct and the need to process what I was experiencing. My practice is rooted in emotional honesty and shaped through a process of layering, erasure, and discovery.

I work abstractly because it allows me to explore the internal — not to explain, but to evoke. Fragments of handwritten journal entries often appear in my paintings, allowing moments of memory and feeling to surface.

My work is not about answers, but about holding complexity. I invite viewers to sit with ambiguity, to bring their own interpretations, and to find their own meanings. These paintings are spaces of resonance, not decoration — they exist to be felt, not solved.