Scott Griffin

Scott Griffin grew up, surrounded by a family of bush pilots, on a farm on Canada's Scugog Island. His family expected him to follow their flying tradition, but Griffin had an urge to create. As a boy, he salvaged unusual materials scattered around the farm. He also began to create the characters that still populate his work today. At age 18, he moved to Oshawa, Canada, where he and his brother Clint collected and recycled materials from the garbage and filled their apartment with hundreds of paintings. They eventually moved to Toronto where Scott continued his artistic development. For several years he concentrated on work using the technique of burning images into salvaged metal with a blowtorch. Now he primarily paints on salvaged wood with encaustic: pigment in beeswax.