He’s Still On the Bus

For almost 40 years, Jason Scull has been creating sculptures that are alive with action and emotion. In the spirit of the cowboy ethos he emulates in his art, he takes an organic approach to his realistic award-winning work, eschewing, for instance, working from photographs.

“If you’re sculpting a running horse, you aren’t going to find a photograph that’s going to give you a 360-degree view of the animal in one position,” he says. “You have to be able to know how to construct these things and do it in a realistic, natural way. That goes back to what I was taught and how I was taught.”

Scull’s dedication to his art has not gone unnoticed—or unrewarded. He’s been participating in national exhibitions and earning awards for decades. Last November, he received the Cynthia Post Memorial Director’s Choice Award at the Small Works Great Wonders Art Show at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for a set of bookend sculptures, one a cowboy and the other a cow with a calf.

Read the full article in the March/April 2026 issue.