Scout Cuomo an multidisciplinary artist artist based in Western Massachusetts.

Her paintings explore the concept of self as a figurative study—and its relationship to bodies of water and the land—through the luminous interplay of the human figure with nature and light.

Drawing from the long history of artists pursuing the Sublime—those moments when the natural world feels vast, overwhelming, and breathtaking—Scout uses water, atmosphere, and layered color to hold emotion inside living landscapes. She approaches the figure not as spectacle, but as embodiment. As a woman painting bodies, she shifts the gaze toward lived experience: how it feels to move through water, how immersion can evoke vulnerability, and transformation. In these works, water becomes a threshold—where the figure isn’t simply seen, but absorbed into something larger.

Water remains a lifelong muse and a constant reminder of our connection to every living thing, and of our capacity to change.

Through both personal work and collaborations, Scout invites viewers to slow down, breathe, and reconnect—to art, to the self, and to the wider natural world.