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Thank you for taking the time to visit this website. It is a great privilege and honor that you have arrived to explore the mixed-media, acrylic, and oil paintings by James Edward Scoville.
Vibrant colors and mixed media infuse these dynamic works with three-dimensional energy flowing onto the canvas, celebrating the interplay of sight and perception.
Intended to spark whimsical delight, they weave stories of life’s meaningful human connections.
Gaia: Mother Earth - Roots And Visions
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
48 x 72
This mixed-media painting reimagines Gaia as a timeless blend of ancient origins and speculative futures. Using acrylics, molding paste, fabric, and olive wood, it evokes Earth’s spiritual essence, with oils depicting its molten core and ethereal skies. Olive branches, symbols of peace, shape a magical staff and ornate wardrobe, fusing nature with visionary horizons. The work confronts Earth’s fragility amid technological overreach, prompting reflection: What legacy do we leave for our planet?
Land Of Windows
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
48 x 72
“Land of Windows” is a vibrant painting that captures the essence of a bicycle tour through the journey of life. Created as one of my earliest works and thoughtfully enhanced in 2025 to reflect my artistic evolution, this piece invites viewers to find inspiration in the beauty of natural experiences. Through dynamic colors and evocative imagery, it celebrates the freedom and discovery found in life’s simple, yet profound moments.
Nuvagantu
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
48 x 60
To the Southern Paiutes, Nuvagantu—the Spring Mountains—stands as the heart of Creation, where their people first emerged at time’s dawn. They envision it as a living, zoomorphic being: head at northern Mount Sterling, tail at Mount Potosi, and womb at central Mount Charleston, cradle of all life. Mount Charleston anchors the range’s geography and culture alike. This storied land blurs physical and mythic realms, bound by portals where humans and spirits still cross—as they have since Creation.
Enlightened
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
14 x 11
Enlightened isn’t a static endpoint but a dynamic process—a perpetual unfolding, where the soul doesn’t arrive at some gilded plateau but dances eternally on the edge of revelation. It’s the beauty of the “aha” suspended in paint, that electric pause where synapses fire and veils lift
Echoes Of Love And Duality
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
15 x 30
Where twilight’s violet plume meets dawn’s amber blaze, Feathers of Reciprocal Flame ignites the poetry of polarity: love not as conquest, but as a mutual kindling—where one flame feeds the other’s glow, feathers entwine and ignite. These heron sentinels, elongated in fluid defiance, arch toward their mirrored fates, beaks suspended in the exquisite ache of almost-touch, their forms a testament to the alchemy of opposition. Cool shadows yield to fervent sparks, painting the canvas with whispers of emerald undercurrents and gilded horizons that flicker like half-remembered dreams.
Feathered Fandango
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
36 x 24
Abstract with whimsy and fire—a playful yet profound nod to the avian duo pirouetting through a storm of plumage and passion. Fandango, that lively Spanish folk dance born of tangled limbs and stomping heels in Andalusian fiestas, fuses here with the feather’s whisper-light defiance, transforming the work from mere abstraction into a feathered frenzy of flirtation and flight. It’s a name evoking not just motion but mischief: two bird-forms, spectral and sinuous, locked in a whirlwind courtship where every curl of yellow and splash of teal suggests quills ruffled in rhythmic rebellion.
Gallop Through The Cosmos
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
11 x 14
This vibrant steed erupting in molten yellow, orange and bronze flames gallops through the Cosmos blending seamlessly from 3d to 2d canvas, flowing against twilight’s back drop the “Fire Horse” exudes boundless freedom, charismatic speed and fiery creativity that sparks bold dreams and community reinvention. At the heart of zodiac folklore lies The Great Race, a foundational myth explaining the 12 animals’ order. The Horse, embodying speed and endurance is thundering toward victory only to be tricked…
Opportunity
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
48 x 60
Las Vegas isn’t mere chance; it’s a canvas of chances, a glittering promise of reinvention and a neon-lit heartbeat of opportunity. Every face a story of someone chasing the next big score. The whisper that anyone can rewrite their luck under the relentless desert sky.
Whispers On The Horizon
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
20 x 16
A dreamlike moment at dusk, where the boundary between sky and sea blurs into a symphony of ethereal forms. The composition is dominated by a vast expanse of cerulean blue, evoking the infinite depth of twilight skies and calm waters merging at the horizon. Layered impasto textures—thick, sculptural strokes of paint—give the surface a tactile, almost breathing quality, as if the canvas itself is caught in a gentle breeze.
Revelation Of The Heart
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
20 x 24
This stunning mixed-media piece pulses with raw emotion and spiritual depth, inviting viewers to surrender as divine love floods the heart’s hidden chambers. At its core blooms a vibrant, textured red heart—organic and alive, as if breathing eternal life into form. Crimson depths stir passion and mysticism, pierced by gold flecks and leaf-like veins: a fragile, sacred thread of mercy weaving through human frailty. Far from solitary, it nestles in swirling blues and greens—a dreamlike seascape of healing waters and boundless soul journeys, where grace meets the infinite.
The American Eagle
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas Board
12 x 12
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Two-Can
Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
SOLD
This painting represents a mixture of high-intensity colors, demonstrating how two completely opposed entities can come together in peace and beauty.
