Maryland native Scott B. Royston graduated from Baltimore School for the Arts in 1993. In the fall of 1994, he began attending the Schuler School of Fine Arts, where he completed his graduate year in May 1999. Royston has spent the past 30-odd years cultivating his techniques in the traditions of the Old Dutch Masters. 
Tea Visitor, oil, 20 x 16"
His Fade to Black depicts a tall, white vase of irises, emblazoned with a black dragon curling up its sides. “I wanted to keep this piece for the most part monochromatic and elegant. Normally you tend to find most lighter objects against a dark backdrop. I wanted to do the reverse in this one. I saw this really cool dragon vase and liked the twisted position of the dragons and saw the similarity [between] that and the twist frilliness of the irises. I liked the length as it adds to the nice simplistic elegance of this piece.”
Freedom Remembered, oil on linen, 30 x 22"
Tea Visitor is a classic still life. “I was looking online at different drapery ideas and came across this very vintage Victorian drapery with stenciled elegant shapes…I purchased it and wanted to design a very vintage Victorian/English tea setting,” he says. “It was rather fun to put all the objects together in creating this piece.”
Fade To Black, oil on panel, 24 x 10"Royston has been the recipient of numerous awards. He is a two-time recipient of the Still Life Awards in the 2005 and 2009 Annual Internal Guild of Realism Juried Exhibitions and winner of the Best of Trompe L’Oeil Award in the 2008 Annual International Guild of Realism Juried Exhibition, among many others. —
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