Born in 1973 in Southern California, Scott Sandoval was raised by parents who had felt a lack of exposure to culture and the arts in their own childhood. As a result, they made a special effort to help Sandoval experience and appreciate the arts, taking him to local museums and live performances on the weekends. He also took a martial arts class which, coincidentally, contributed to his artistic background: one of the instructors in the class invited Sandoval to a Japanese woodworking class, which eventually was what inspired him to pursue a career in art and instilled in him an Eastern sense of aesthetics.

With this fire ignited within him, Sandoval enrolled at the Ringling College of Art and Design, where he specialized in painting and printmaking. Still utilizing the Eastern style that he was taught in his woodworking classes, he developed a unique painting style that began to attract positive attention, and he began exhibiting his art in galleries even before he graduated. After graduation, however, Sandoval believed that traveling abroad would expand his artistic horizons and expose him to other creative possibilities. It was on these travels that he met his first love, who inspired him to begin the series of paintings that is probably his most famous.

Nowadays, the female faces he paints are no longer just of one woman, rather, they are an examination of human relationships, past, present, and future. Even when painting a subject he doesn’t know, Sandoval finds that the faces tell stories – this is precisely why his paintings are so popular. Each and every viewer can find a different story in the beautiful faces he paints. As a result, many, many people collect Sandoval’s remarkable creations which can be found in private and corporate collection across the United States and abroad.