Architectural Foundation Art Gallery Fall Art Exhibition: Don Scott and Ella Jennings – “What Remains”

Architectural Foundation Art Gallery, “What Remains” by Don Scott and Ella Jennings is a joint exhibition featuring hand-crafted wooden vessels by Don Scott and oil paintings on wood panels by Ella Jennings. The Fall Exhibition runs from September 12 – November 7, 2026. There is an Opening Reception on Friday, September 11th, 5-7 p.m., and an Artist Talk on Saturday, October 10th, 2 p.m. All are welcome to attend.

Through woodturned forms and oil paintings, Scott and Jennings explore meaning and beauty in found lumber and interior spaces. Together, their work offers a meditation on personal history, craftmanship, and wood.

Many of Jennings’ small oil paintings depict variations of wood as a grounding force, either in its natural state or material for man-made construction. Painting on salvaged wood panels, Jennings imagines interior domestic structures as settings for encountering the divine, moving through life transitions, or revisiting memories of past homes and loved ones who inhabited them. Familiar rooms pared down to their basic structure become transfigured by luminous colors, abstract light and shadow shapes.

A retired cabinet maker and builder, Scott works with found and locally sourced timber, embracing “the stresses of wind and weather, age and environment…[which] leave a visual history in every piece of wood. Natural cracks, voids and discolorations are part of that story.” His delicate vessels are marked by raw edges, swirling grain, and imperfections that honor the tree’s existence.

Through distilling and refining their mediums, techniques and subject matter, both Scott and Jennings reveal that “what remains” is something altogether new.

Architectural Foundation Art Gallery

229 East Victoria Street, Santa Barbara

Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 1 – 4 p.m., and by appointment