Our in-studio gallery recently exhibited a work by Willow Scott, lifelong artist and Mayer/Reed project accountant. Willow put aside her usual paintbrushes for this piece and instead painted with only her hands. Titled “Resilience,” the painting represents the healing process of creating art.

“I began with finger-painted words representing negativity,” she shares. “Then I made the negativity go away — layering and blending primary colors over the words with my hands.” The cathartic piece is the first time the artist has used this process.

Willow embodies that rare combination of “accounting brain” (as she calls it) and artistic soul and finds that the creative process of making something balances her analytical, mathematical side. She moves between painting, fiber arts and small ceramics — always chasing new forms of expression.