Early Life and Artistic Training Ian Scott enters the world in Bradford, England, on 20 April 1945. The landscape of his childhood shifts in 1952 when he moves to New Zealand. By the age of 15, the act of painting has already taken hold. It is a formative period of discovery that leads him to Kelston Boys' High School. He does not linger in the classroom for long; the impulse to create drives him toward formal study. The mid-1960s mark a period of rapid professional ascent. Scott enrolls at the Elam School of Fine Arts, where he studies from 1964 to 1967. The momentum is immediate. In 1963,…