Self-taught artist, born in Sudbury, Suffolk, who exhibited under this name, as Malcolm and as Malcolm Richard Longbottom. “I have had very little education and they call my work naïve. It is all about the way I see and I just paint for myself. When I left school we had very little, I had to get a job and we all had to pull our weight. School was not much thought about.” Scott “drifted from job to job. I was in the Merchant Navy when I was young, so put paintings in exhibitions all over the world.” Early exhibitions included South Bay Gallery, Cape Town, and J K Tasker Gallery, Durban, both in South Africa, 1958, and Artists of the North, New York City, 1959. Eventually Scott settled in Harrogate. In 1985 he shared a show there with David Hockney at the Arcade Gallery.