William Scott Jennings has been a professional artist since 1973. He began his career in commercial art, working in Dallas, Nashville and Sacramento. Mr. Jennings' gallery exposure began in Dallas in 1976, and by 1978 he was showing his work in Santa Fe and Scottsdale. After residing in Taos, New Mexico for 15 years, Scott relocated to Sedona, Arizona in January 1996. His paintings are in corporate and private collections around the world, including the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC and the Ford Motor Company.
A new PBS television series, The Artists Workshop features Mr. Jennings as he produces a plein air painting for the fourth episode in the year 2000 line up. A new episode featuring Jennings is scheduled for the 2001 season.
Scott won the quick draw competition at the 2000 Desert Plein Air Show in Indian Wells, CA. He received best of show at the 1999 Impressionaire Show at the PGA West Country Club in La Quinta, CA. These events display plein air paintings done on location during the week before the shows.
The 1998 Arts for the Parks Show named Jennings as the Best of Show Gold Medal Winner with a Grand Prize of $50,000 for his painting "Timeless Beauty". The show receives approximately 2400 entries annually. In the 1994 Arts for the Parks Show, his painting "Sunset on Isis" was the region II winner; an award for the best painting of the southwest region of the United States. It was the recipient of a Silver Medal and reproduced as part of the 1994 National Park Stamp. The Grand Canyon National Park used Scott's painting as the invitation image for the Arts for the Parks exhibit at the park. Jennings' work was in the top 100 five years in a row before retiring from the competition after his 1998 win.
Two of Jennings' paintings have been used as cover art for books: A Roadside Guide to Rocky Mountain National Park and, most recently, Physical Geology, a college textbook. His work was also used on the cover of the America West in flight magazine in August 2001.
In 1989, Scott participated in the first of several shows in Japan. His work consistently sold throughout the country. Shows were held in all the major cities in Japan. Two of the shows produced color catalogs that featured works by Mr. Jennings. The 1988 festival celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Wild and Scenic
Rivers Act commissioned Jennings to produce a poster for the event. Scott was invited to spend a month as a guest of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1986. He was the first painter given the honor of 'Artist in Residence' at the park. The 1985 Wilderness Art Exhibit chose Jennings' "The Elk Range" as the show poster for the event. Jennings won three awards at the 1984 New Mexico Professional Art Exhibit. His painting "The Rio Grande Gorge" is now part of the collection at the state capital in Santa Fe.
Jennings is a Master Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America (OPA) and a Signature Member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA).
Feature articles about Jennings' work have appeared in American Artist Magazine, Art of the West Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine, Focus Magazine and Art and Business News. Jennings was part of two national invitational shows in 2001: Grand Canyon Expressions at the Forbes Gallery in New York, NY and Burlingame, CA, and the Contemporary Artists Paint Yosemite and the Eastern Sierras at the Haggin Museum in Stockton, CA.
Notable collectors include Christopher Forbes, William Shatner, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell and the Ford Motor Corporation. | 
