Over the years, from 2000 – 2016, Sc made two trips into the highland Inca ceremonial centers of Peru, including Cusco, Machu Picchu and Q’ollorit’i, and six trips deep into the Peruvian rainforest, to the very headwaters of the Amazon river system. While working with the indigenous tribes, including the Quero, Shipibo and Mestizo shamans, he met the great Mestizo shamanic healer and artist, Pablo Amaringo. Scott first encountered Amaringo at his home in Pucallpa, Peru on the way to the rainforest. There Scott was exposed to the vividly colorful, deeply spiritual renditions of nature’s life, its inner spiritual world of plant and animal medicine-teachers, and the visionary transformative experiences portrayed in the paintings of this world-famous vegetalista (shamanic plant-medicine) healer. In 2001 Scott began collecting Amaringo's paintings and those of his students who he trained while they were still young children. During Scott's six journeys through Pucallpa into the Amazonian rainforest he would stop to collect these paintings. Scott now has ten Pablo Amaringo originals, some small paintings Pablo did for the now international best-selling Golden Section book, and around one hundred fifty of the paintings of Amaringo's students, who are now adults.

In 1988 Pablo Amaringo and anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna founded the Usko-Ayar Amazonian School of Painting. It is a non-profit organization that over the years has assisted underprivileged youth (who pay no fees) to not only paint, but preserve their cultural identity, promote knowledge of medicinal plants, help preserve and respect their Amazonian environment with ethnobotanical gardens, do theatre, traditional dances, ceramics and other handicrafts, play musical instruments, and learn basic principles of character, friendship, kindness, and cooperation with others. Usko-Ayar has produced quite a number of outstanding individuals and artists who have helped spread knowledge about Amazonian nature, art and culture. And at times the student population has numbered over two hundred.

These paintings, done in what are called the Neo-Amazonico and Amazonian sub-realistic styles, are considered to be some of the best examples of Mestizo vegetalista and ayahuasquero shamanism in the world. Exhibiting the stunning and brilliant use of colors, the paintings done usually with acrylics on canvas, but occasionally with gouache on special paper, depict the plant, animal and human deva-like (or angelic) spirits encountered in deep ceremonial visionary experiences. Incorporating unique Shipibo textile and pottery designs, Pablo’s students at Usko-Ayar were taught to faithfully render the flora and fauna surrounding them, to carefully visualize inwardly the spiritual presences encountered in the rainforest, and then to reproduce them on the canvas. Pablo himself described how he learned to mix the colors from the plant-teachers while in a deep ceremonial non-ordinary state of consciousness.

The beauty and resonant potential of the visionary artwork in this exhibit is intended to inspire a feeling of reverence and awe for all of nature.