Aileen-Marie Scott has always been blessed to live an artistic life. Not being able to sit still, Aileen became an actress and worked in the field for most of her life. When she directed a play about Mark Rothko she was reminded of her love of painting and grabbed some canvases, brushes, and paints and never looked back. Aileen is an abstract artist and paints from her emotions and her life. “In theater, every so often you have moments when things become so real the world goes away and it is just you and your craft. There is a magic with painting that envelopes me almost every time I am in my studio. That peace. That centeredness. That giving over to craft. It's like a prayer. And that's what it's all about."