walzstudios

Scott Walz Studios

Custom creations in the Florida Keys

"Dream It, I Create It"

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Scott's Galleries:

� Puppets & Hats

� Waterfalls

� Walls & Landscapes

� Masks

� Mailboxes, Portholes & Sculptures

Scott Walz has a special gift. You can almost see the creative ideas rushing through his brain so fast he can�t catch them. His creativity is a melding of the material and the spiritual. Here are some of the events that led Scott to the art he�s making today.

Scott was born in 1958 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, into a slightly unusual family. He grew up with his mom and stepfather. Every place they lived in Wisconsin, they lived above a bar and his parents ran the bar. He had four brothers and three sisters. Scott didn�t know dad until he was 18. His youngest sister�s father was the stepfather he grew up with.
For as long as Scott can remember, he�s had the ability to create anything he can visualize in his mind. The family moved to California from Milwaukee when Scott was 8. Even at such an early age, Scott showed amazing creativity. Scott�s experiences in sculpture began in early grade school with clay, and with each new type of material, new ideas sprung into his fertile mind. In the 6th grade, he learned to do paper mache, and soon began creating masks, which he still does today.

But Scott�s life has had its share of tragedy.

He says:

When I was 11, my little sister Becky was killed by a car. She was 6 years old. We had been playing together a lot for the past three days, but on the day she was killed this day, I told her to stay home because I was going to play with a friend. She followed me down the street, and as I turned around, she had been following me, she ran out of the bushes and I saw a car hit her. I ran all the way home and I prayed. I got down on my knees began to pray with my eyes closed. I was very distraught. I felt a hand touch my head, I turned around, Nobody was there. Then my mom came in and told me we lost Becky.

Even with this terrible loss, Scott remembers Becky�s presence in his room that day. This was his first experience of being touched by a heavenly spirit.

Scott started working with stone at the age of 18, when he met his father, who had an excavation business. That experience was the genesis of the walls and waterfalls he creates now. The business world occupied his life a decades, he eventually married and had two children, Scott and Natasha.

Although his family was his focus then, art kept calling him back.

He says:

I had been away from art for a few years, but I got back into it again. I was driving down the road with my wife, and I asked her, �What do you want to be for Halloween?� We had a pink panther fur heads so, and I made a paper mache pink panther family. I used a paper bag and paper mached it. I made a dad pink panther with fur on it, and I was blown away that I could do this again, so I made a mom and a baby and we all went out for Halloween as a pink panther family.. They were just fur heads with rubber noses, but we were the talk of the neighborhood that year.

Once Scott started making masks again, he worked with a local mask maker who was selling masks to a store in San Francisco. Scott was sculpting the heads, and he taught himself to make molds. He made a number of characters, including �Mac and Me� from the movie, Mike Tyson, George Bush, Roger Rabbit, Marilyn Monroe. Around the same time, he started doing rock work and landscaping, so all his talents were coming together. That was back around �89. He was still making masks, like the Raisin Heads (from the Post Raisin Bran commercials), Ray Charles and the �Noid� - all using paper mache.

At this point Scott had an excavation business going in Washington State. He had five acres in Washington State where he made a lake that had an island in the middle with a 65-foot water slide. He built mountain with a trampoline on it and rocks around it so it looked like a volcano.

I hauled rocks in as big as Volkswagens, and I placed them all around the property, and I built waterfalls. That�s when I started doing a lot of rock walls and waterfalls. But in Washington State it rained every day, and it got to me. Especially with the excavation business, you�re always in the mud. I got tired of the rain, and we packed up and moved to Florida. We were supposed to go to Tampa, but we ended up in the Keys. After being together (24 years), my wife left me when we had been down here for about a year. My son went into the Navy just as he turned 17, and that was on 9/11/2001.

Scott has been living and working in Key Largo for five years. Now he�s finally doing the kind of art he loves.
After all these years, I�m now making everything I want to � masks, tikis, mailboxes, fountains, various sculptures and walls. My biggest supporter is my girlfriend Jeanie. We�ve been together over three years, and my kids really like her. I can work in my studio during the day and sing karaoke a few nights a week.

So after all of Scott�s adventures, he now has a studio where he can focus on his creativity and his art. Remember where his creative spirit comes from. He can make your dreams come to life. Scott always says, if you can dream it up, he can most likely bring it to life, so keep on dreaming...Welcome to Scott's world & enjoy his website...