Under the guidance of his father, his artistic skill slowly developed as he put pencil and pastel to paper to capture natural scenes and wildlife. Scott took no formal art courses outside of high-school, but pursued art in his free time. As his artwork became recognized locally, he began using pen as a medium. Another artist, this time Donn Evans of Williams Lake inspired Scott with a technique called pointilism (or stipling). Scott began experimenting with this technique and produced numerous drawings of wildlife, mostly North American.

Later, with photography as a study-aid he began to experiment with watercolour (watercolor for our US friends). Scott produced highly detailed wildlife studies mixing the pen-pointalism and watercolour media - a technique that proved very popular. He was invited to display his work internationally at 'Expo 86' where he represented the province, and between 1986 and 1992 his paintings and drawings were reproduced in numerous forms - as prints, cards, and on calendars. In this time he won several prizes in nation-wide art competitions though the extremely time consuming originals were few in number.

Following high-school, Scott set art aside as he pursued education and training with the Canadian Armed Forces. In 1995 he graduated from Royal Roads Military College and went on to study engineering, serving on several west coast ships. This work, which took him from Eastern Canada and Europe to the Arabian Gulf and around most of the Pacific Rim, so occupied him that his art virtually ceased. In 2000, following five years of service, he left his engineering job and said goodbye to the Navy. He was married in July of that year and moved with his Norwegian wife Kristin, to Kristiansand in the south of Norway.

There, Scott is learning the language and studying technical drawing. He has also rediscovered the pleasure of drawing with graphite and charcoal and the subject matter of his pencil drawings varies more widely now.