Scott W. Prior is a native of Southern California. He studied illustration and painting at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. At the Academy, he studied under artists Craig Nelson, Bill Maughan and Hui Han Lui, where he learned higher artistic ideals through intensive study while developing a solid foundation of design, drawing and painting. Prior is a Signature Artist member with the California Art Club and an Artist member with the Portrait Society of America. He has been awarded and recognized by the Oil Painters of America, La Quinta Arts Foundation’s Desert Plein Air Invitational, La Quinta, CA, The Society of Illustration Los Angeles, The Artist Magazine, Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, CA and The Bower’s Museum Plein Air Show, Santa Ana, CA, plus many more. In October 2014, Prior won the Plein Air Magazine Award at the 14th Annual Laguna Plein Air Painting Invitational and in February he was awarded with an honorable mention at the Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational.

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