Scott Bennett has been drawing and painting most of his life and received a B.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1974. As a nationally known artist he has been exhibited widely, and been recognized by his professional peers, major art critics, and collectors, to be making high level art in what can be called the major tradition of visual art.

Bennett's artistic output includes painterly landscapes and still life in acrylic, informed by 15 years of making abstract pictures, and detailed botanical watercolors, primarily of carnivorous plants.

The work of two very distinct genres is inspired, in part, by the same sense of wonder that filled him during his childhood when exploring the woods, swamps and fields in his native northern New Jersey. These explorations continue to this day as he maintains a passionate interest in seeking out unique natural places such as bogs, rain forests and alpine meadows. These ecosystems, that are sometimes home to the carnivorous plants that he loves, are occasionally depicted in his landscape paintings.

Since the mid 70's he has been actively growing and painting carnivorous plants, although the botanical watercolors have only rarely been exhibited. Occasionally, some of the plant paintings have been published as illustrations in horticultural magazines such as Hortscience and American Horticulturalist sparking interest with collectors. An award winning book on Carnivorous Plants called The Savage Garden, by Peter D'Amato, was published in 1998 using many of Bennett's paintings and drawings as illustrations.

In 1988 he made a small run of hand painted and silkscreened prints of an amaryllis, and then the following year a small hand colored and offset litho print of a pitcher plant (S. leucophylla). While these are very unique and beautiful pieces they do not show all the detail of color and drawing that the watercolors have in them. Being hand colored they are also more time consuming to produce and cost more in the end. The decision was made in 1997 to make prints using high quality offset lithography with special pigment based, fade resistant inks printed on archival, acid free paper. The work Sweet Pitcher Plant and Violet Butterwort, published as a limited edition, is the only one available of this type, and is a poster size print.

Throughout the 80's, 90's and into the 21st century, Bennett has received both critical and commercial success with his painting. The botanical drawings and watercolors remained on the sideline as a result of time constraints due to the level of ambition and energy devoted to his acrylic painting. Nevertheless, his interest in, and love for carnivorous plants and their habitats never waned.

Now, with the newest ink jet printer technology and pigment based inks, it is possible to make very high quality prints on demand that are archival, have excellent color and detail, and are affordable. This has increased the number and variety of prints that can be made available, along with a giant leap in image quality. All the details of the originals are reproduced very precisely. Some of the more informal studies, lost gems that may not have been selected because of the need to prioritize with more finished works, can now be made into prints as well. In addition, this technology gives Bennett the tools to realize a long time dream of creating folios and monographs on specific genera of carnivorous plants, and doing it with complete artistic control over the publishing from start to finish.

Many drawings and color studies from life are used to create a finished painting which is done in watercolor, gouache, and sometimes acrylic. Sometimes there is a suggestion of natural habitat surrounding the plant which is informed by Bennett's field experience. The final painting combines botanical accuracy and aesthetic harmony to make a work of Art that is much more than illustration, and shows a true love for the subject.