Born on the same day as the famed Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole, Scott Thomas Balfe is often teased about the coincidence. Although more than a 150 years separate their births, their equal passion for the Catskill Mountains has inspired both Cole and Balfe to create luminous landscape paintings. Balfe resides in the Catskill Mountains of New York; he moved to the Catskills to be in constant touch with the motifs. After painting many of the same locations that the Hudson River School artists painted, Balfe returns to the studio to complete the plein-aire painting.

Exhibition:
St. Hulbert's Giraldi, NJ
Waterfowl Festival, 1992-1999, Easton MD
Yankee Heritage Art and Nature Festival, Sutton, MA
Hudson River WIldlife festival 1995, *Regional Featured Artist, Kingston, NY
Southern Maryland Wildlife Festival 1992-1995, Waldorf, MD
Southeastern Wildlife Exposition 1992-1996, Charlestown, SC
Birds in Art 1998/Artists View 1993, Leigh Yawkey Woodston Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Florida Art Exposition 1997, Orlando, FL
The Great Northern Catskill Bear Festival 1998, Tannersville, NY

Magazines:
Kaatskil Life, NY, A Regional Journal, Spring 1995
Hudson Valley Magazine, NY, February 1994

Awards:
Ridgewood Art Institute, First Grand National Jury Show, Council of American
Artist Award, February 1995

Auctions:
Sotheby's Olana, Home of Frederick Church, Hudson, NY
Guernsey's Auction, New York City, NY