Fiona McIntyre
Born in 1963 in Kenya, Fiona McIntyre spent her childhood in Dublin and the South of England, from 1982-85 she did a BA hons at Edinburgh College of Art where she began experimenting with painting and drawing until moving to Sweden in 1986. She travelled throughout Scandianva including Iceland eventually studying printmaking in Malmo under Surrealist Bertil Lundberg. Here her strong drawing skills were encouraged and she developed a powerful series of work inspired by the Nordic landscape and psyche. In 1992 Fiona moved to Barcelona to complete an MA in European Fine Art (Winchester), this proved to be a turning point in the direction of her work which became a fusion of the techniques of painting and printmaking.
Now resident in Gloucestershire the theme of landscape is dominated by pattern and she works with highly charged colour, sweeping, flowing brush marks, scraping, scratching and working the paint to evoke the agricultural and natural patterns, the vibrant red earth tones and tangled trees of the Cotswold landscape.
I am greatly inspired by the Cotswolds and find myself being drawn towards strong compositions which pull the observer in combining colour and sweeping lines to express the emotion of the landscape. I don't experience landscape as a static thing, it is always moving, always changing like the billowing clouds and seasons and the constantly disrupted fields with their ploughed scars almost etched into the soil by agricultural machinery.
Fiona McIntyre
Fiona McIntyre's CV
Education
1992-93
MA Winchester School of Art in Barcelona
1989-92
Grafikskolan Forum under Professor Bertil Lundberg, Malmo, Sweden
1982-85
BA (hons) Edinburgh College of Art
Awards
2002
Bath Printmaker's
2001
Pro-Signs Graphics
1996
Surrey Arts Council
Memberships
Bath Society of Artists, elected 2002
Fossway Artists, elected 2007
Exhibitions
2007
Out of the Blue Gallery, Bath
2007
Swell Gallery, Nr Stow-on-the-Wold
2007
D'Arcy Gallery, Cheltenham
2007
Bowlish Contemporary, Shepton Mallet
2007
Affordable Art Fair, London
2006
Lennox Gallery
2006
Out of the Blue Gallery, Bath
2006
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
2005
Gallery 22, Ashburton Devon
2004
The Great Barn, Higher Ashton, Devon
8 Reece Mews, London
Christies St James,London
2003
The Hotbath Gallery, Bath.
The Rope Store Gallery, Nailsworth
2002
Royal West of England Academy
Camden Fine Art, Bath
2001
Victoria Art Gallery Bath
1999
Arts Haven, Exeter
1997
Lund Art Museum, Sweden
1995
The Mall Galleries, London
The Coventry Gallery, London
1994
Le Chat Noir, London
1993
The Winchester Gallery
British Council, Barcelona
1989
Lund University Sweden
1997
Bohuslan Art Museum, Sweden
1991
The Forum Gallery, Sweden
1990
Gallery Konstnarscentrum, Sweden
1992
Gallery F17, Norway
1996
Konstframjande, Sweden
1984
Royal Scottish Academy
Collections
Bohuslan Art Museum, Sweden
Fjarhitun Ltd, Consulting Engineers, Rekjavik, Iceland
Public Art
1998
Malmo General Hospital, Sweden