Dr. Andrew McCann
Scott McDougall
- Sitter: Dr. Andrew McCann
- Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Dimensions: 90 x 120 cm
- Representation: Lethbridge Gallery
About the artist
Scott McDougall is contemporary realist painter, Queensland born and Brisbane educated, with diplomas in both Art Teaching and Fine Arts. He relocated to Sydney to pursue his painting career and has held over 35 solo exhibitions across Australia and overseas. Scott has travelled extensively from Europe to South America, and across South East Asia, finding inspiration for his paintings and is well represented in both private and corporate collections here and internationally. He has been a finalist in both the Sulman and Wynne Prizes and Brisbane Tattersall’s Landscape Prize as well as many other national art prizes. He recently moved to northern NSW where he built a new house and dedicated painting studio which has inspirational views across the Caldera towards Mt Warning.
About the sitter
Dr Andrew McCann is an interventional cardiologist and vascular physician at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane and at Ipswich Cardiac Centre. A graduate from the University of Queensland he completed his residency at the Princess Alexandra Hospital before training in cardiology at the Royal Brisbane and Prince Charles Hospitals. Andrew also undertook a year of dedicated peripheral endovascular training and Vascular Medicine at the Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston. Scott McDougall says: “I wanted to capture Andrew in a relaxed, casual pose rather than what is normally expected in a formal portrait. Here is a highly qualified professional enjoying his day off, a touch of exhaustion in the eyes but a relaxed pose as he sinks into his comfy chair.”
