Brian Scanlon grew up in western Pennsylvania and began drawing as a young child. Inspired by his father, also an artist, his parents enrolled him in the junior arts program at the Butler Art Institute in Youngstown, Ohio. 

Scanlon’s adult career was in engineering and he was a practicing civil engineer in Los Angeles, California from the early 60’s to 2000.  

In the 70’s Scanlon again sharpened his drawing pencils and loaded his brushes with paint and began a new chapter in his artistic endeavors. As primarily an oil painter, plein air painting is something he loves. Favorite subjects include the Los Angeles architecture and landscape, the California desert and the Amish lands of western Pennsylvania. Since moving to the Charleston area in 2003 he has been drawn to paint his unique interpretation of the marshes, shrimp boats and the Charleston docks. As a relative newcomer to the Charleston art scene he is quickly gaining the reputation of being someone whose work should be in your collection.

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"Horlbeck Creek, Morning"
oil on canvas
16 x 20
$975

"Shem Creek Shrimpers II"
oil on canvas
20x16
 $975

"Shem Creek Shrimpers V"
oil on canvas
20 x 16
$975

 "Waiting for Summer"
oil on canvas
24 x 18
$1200