Scott Carter

Scott Carter’s passion for capturing the enormous beauty of the outdoors derives from growing up in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains and in his exploration of Idaho’s wild areas over the past 36 years.

High contrast land- and sky-scapes, often in black and white, provide combinations of light and dark, close up, middle-ground, and nearly-surreal dimensions. 

His compositions reveal grand depth of field and delightful perspective guided by an audacious love of mixed and saturated color.  

Scott’s love affair with Nature in all its moods cast and recast by changing light, echo strong influences from Plein Air painters of the early 1900s.  His powerful photographic and painted images are a unique marriage of a personal vision and an old world perspective. 

Scott crafts his giclée images – pictures captured in digital photography – into finished works printed on the highest quality canvas, photo paper, and even metal.

• Artist-in-Residence: Idaho Bureau of Land Management Artist-in-Residence Program, 2014
• Featured Artist: June, 2012 Lizard Butte Library Art Display, Marsing, Idaho
• Featured Artist: December, 2011 Artist Blue Gallery, Nampa, Idaho
• Scott’s work is displayed in the public corridors and executive offices of St. Alphonsus Regional Hospital’s Caldwell campus as well in many private collections.
• Scott’s artwork has expressed an appreciation for natural and/or cultural resources within wilderness areas such as the Bob Marshall Wilderness, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Bruneau Sand Dunes, Jarbidge Wilderness, to name a few.
• Scott is a long time resident of Idaho.