Los Gázquez favourite artist William Scott was born in Scotland of Scottish and Irish parents but travelled widely throughout Europe up until serving in the second world war. Like yours truly he won a scholarship to study at the  Royal Academy Schools in Piccadilly. For many years he was a senior painting tutor at the Bath Royal Academy. In 1953 he went to the USA and met the likes of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko and for a while became an abstract expressionist painter. However, after a while he reverted to his still life and European tradition of painting. The painting I’ve posted here, Still Life with Orange, is in fact an abstracted still life. We know this as the skillet or frying pan is a common theme running throughout all of his painting. We like this work in particular for it’s form and colour. I also get to use unpopular words like ‘juxtaposition’ to describe the balance of forms against each other. More importantly it represents a period in British art which I forever hope will become more popular again, the age of austerity after the war and the post war transition to affluence through, in part, great design.