My name is Iris Scott, and I am here to revolutionize the art world with the tips of my fingers. I am going to continue painting for the next 60-70 years of my life until I am completely blind or unable to move my hand across a canvas. I am interested in two things: 1) getting my paintings into museums so that little girls can see more female names included among the Masters and 2) helping humanity think of animals as equals: like us, they are divine beings—let’s paint animals, not eat them.
When I see an artwork that makes me gasp—a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, Klimt, or Picasso, for example—my head melts, and the moment stretches into a new dimension of hyper-reality. That is a very important sensation: it is the awe of realizing: wow a human did this, and it empowers you to believe you can do something profound, too.
Finally, in 2019, for the first time in my life, I was accepted by the art world. It took a decade of painting full time, and hundreds of completed finger paintings to get to a point when articles by critics in New York Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, and on ArtNet praised my work. I see a new artistic era on the horizon. The new era of art will be uplifting. Art will no longer have to be obscure or confusing to be taken seriously. It will be an era where plants and animals are legitimized as serious subject matter. The era of excluding animals, landscapes, and plants from high art is over. Right now.